Publications

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Books

2021 On the Wilder Shores of Life. Living with primitive tribes. Ellie White

2020 Darwinism, Dogma, and Cultural Evolution. Castalia House

2018 Ship of Fools. An anthology of learned nonsense about primitive society. Castalia House.

2016a  Do We Need God to be Good? An anthropologist considers the evidence. Castalia House

2016b  Ethical Thought in Increasingly Complex Societies. Social structure and moral development. Lexington Books.

2011  On Primitive Society, and other forbidden topics. AuthorHouse UK

2008a How We Got Here. From bows and arrows to the space age. AuthorHouse UK

2008b The Konso of Ethiopia. A study of the Values of an East Cushitic Society. AuthorHouse UK. Revised  edition of 1st edition, 1972

2004 The Evolution of Moral Understanding. www.prometheus.org

1986 The Principles of Social Evolution. Oxford : Clarendon Press. (1988 2nd edition, paperback.)

1980 The Foundations of Primitive Thought. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

Translated As

1984 Die Grundlagen Primitiven Denkens . Tr. L. Bernard. Stuttgart : Klett Cotta. 1990. 2nd edition, paperback.

1984 I Fondamenti del Pensiero Primitivo. Tr. S. Tre Re. Intro. M. Squillaciotti. Rome : Editori Riuniti.

1986 Fundamentos del Pensamiento Primitivo. Tr. F. Patan. Mexico : Fondo de Cultura Economica.

1977 Bloodshed and Vengeance in the Papuan Mountains. The generation of conflict in Tauade society. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

1972 The Konso of Ethiopia. A study of the values of a Cushitic people. Oxford : Clarendon Press.

Edited

1979 The Kukukuku of the Upper Watut. Edited from the published and unpublished fieldnotes of the late Beatrice Blackwood, with Introduction and Bibliography. Oxford : Pitt Rivers Museum Monograph Series No. 2.

Some Journal Entries

1997 'Social Evolution'. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 152(4), 682-689.

1992 'Is There A Primitive Society?'. Cambridge Anthropology, 16, 29-44

1986 'Social and Biological Evolution II: Some Basic Principles of Social Evolution'. Journal of Social and Biological Structures, 9, 5-31.

1985 'Social and Biological Evolution I: Darwinism and Social Evolution'. Journal of Soc. and Biol. Struct ., 8, 129-146.

1984 'The Relevance of The Theory of Inclusive Fitness To Human Society'. Journal of Soc. and Biol. Struct., 7, 131-144.

1976a 'Is There A Primitive Mentality?'. Man (n.s.), 11, 253-270.

1976b 'The Origins of The Borana Gada System'. Africa, 46, 48-56.

1975 'Two Types of Reciprocity'. Comp. Studies in Society and History. 17, 113-119.

1973a 'Aristotelian and Heraclitean Societies'. Ethos, 2, 65-76.

1973b 'Functionalist Interpretations of Primitive Warfare'. Man (n.s.), 4, 51-70.

1970a 'The Principles of Alliance Formation Between Konso Towns'. Man (n.s.), 5, 258-280.

1970b 'Konso Agriculture'. Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 8, 31-43.

1969 'Social Hair'. Man (n.s.), 4, 256-64.

1968 'The Status of Craftsmen Among The Konso of Southwest Ethiopia'. Africa , 38, 258-269.

Encyclopedia Articles

2008, 'Time Reckoning and Calendars', New Encyclopaedia of Africa. Ed. J. Middleton. V, 52-9.New York : Harper Collins.

1997 'Hair'. The Encyclopaedia of Religion. Ed. Mircea Eliade, 6, 154-57.

1995 'The Konso'. The Encyclopaedia of World Cultures. Eds. Middleton & Massam. 9,169-172. HRAF Press