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A collection of fictional works about anthropologists.
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Novels

  • Regeneration - Barker, Pat (Great Britain)
    Call Number: PR6052.A6488 R4
    Set during World War I, the novel describes the attempts of a psychologist/forensic anthropologist to alleviate the war trauma of shell-shocked soldiers in order return them to the trenches. The doctor, W.H.R. Rivers is an historical figure as are several of his patients including the notable British poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon.
  • Fieldwork - Berlinski, Mischa (Thailand)
    Call Number: PS3602.E75825 F54
    An American reporter in Thailand searches for the truth behind the suicide of a woman anthropologist, imprisoned for supposedly committing murder.
  • The Lost Steps - Carpentier, Alejo (Cuba)
    Call Number: PQ7389.C263 P313
    An unhappy New York composer undertakes an assignment to discover primitive musical instruments in the Amazonian jungle. There he finds people who live in harmony with their environment and a renewed creativity that civilization could not offer him.
  • Mission to Sonora - Cramer, Rebecca (USA)
    Call Number: PS3553.R268 M5
    A forensic anthropologist helps the police when a dead real estate developer's plans threaten her beloved Sonoran Desert.
  • The View From Frog Mountain - Cramer, Rebecca (USA)
    Call Number: PS3553.R268 V53
    An anthropologist investigates the stealing of Native artifacts while assisting an old friend who is opening a bed and breakfast in Arizona.
  • Lies - De Heriz, Enrique (Spain)
    A Spanish anthropologist on a field trip to Guatemala is misidentified as a drowning victim. Rather than returning to her life, she accepts the error; her daughter, however is grieving and by the time she returns to her family, issues in a family come to a head.
  • The Keeper of Antiquities - Dombrovsky, Yuri (Russia)
    Call Number: PG3476.D613 K48
    An earnest archaeologist, living in internal exile in Kazakhstan, tries to keep out of serious trouble while the terror of Stalin's regime increases during the late '30's.
  • Thief of Time - Hillerman, Tony (Native American)
    Call Number: PS3558.I45 T47
    When an anthropologist who has been removing pottery, while digging an unauthorized site goes missing, two Navajo police officers try to find her. the novel brings up issues of the removal of artifacts from sacred sites. Hillerman's next book Talking God deals with the display of Native remains in American museums.
  • Himmelfarb - Krueger, Michael (Germany)
    A young German anthropologist during the Third Reich goes to South America where his Jewish assistant Leo Himmelfarb immerses himself in the culture. Later the anthropologist must reassess his work.
  • Always Coming Home - LeGuin, Ursula (USA)
    Call Number: PS3562.E42A79
    A peaceful people of the future who have learned to live with and cherish the earth are portrayed in this novel by an anthropologist who is the daughter of a famous anthropologist/ethnographer.
  • Anil's Ghost - Ondaatje, Michael (Sri Lanka)
    Call Number: PR9199.3.O5 A84
    A forensic pathologist returns to her native Sri Lanka to investigate accusations of torture. She is assisted by an anthropologist, his physician brother and a Buddhist sculptor in her quest to understand the terror of the civil war.
  • Krippendorf's Tribe - Parkin, Frank
    Call Number: PR6066.A69535 K7
    To qualify for a grant, a British anthropologist invents an Amazonian tribe named after his wild children. Then events take on a life of their own in this very black comedy.
  • Less than Angels - Pym, Barbara (British)
    Call Number: PR6066.Y58L4
    This novel about the doings and misdoings of members of an academic anthropology department betrays the foibles of academic anthropologists and becomes a witty anthropological study of the anthropologists themselves.
  • The Storyteller - Vargas Llosa, Mario (Peru)
    Call Number: PR6066.Y58L4
    This novel about the doings and misdoings of members of an academic anthropology department betrays the foibles of academic anthropologists and becomes a witty anthropological study of the anthropologists themselves.
  • Chancers - Vizenor, Gerald (Native American)
    Call Number: PS3572.I9 C47
    A group of radical Native American students at the University of California are assassinating college officials and substituting their skulls for those of Native Americans preserved in the anthropology museum in this novel about the repatriation of Native remains.
 

Notable Authors

The following authors have written series feature crime-solving anthropologists as protagonists. These anthropologists use their academic skills to find the answers to heinous crimes. Most of these authors' books are available at local public libraries.

Beverly Connor - Her anthropologists are Diane Fallon Lindsey Chamberlin

Aaron Elkins - He writes about forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver

Sharyn McCrumb - Her heroine is Elizabeth MacPherson

Kathy Reich - This extremely popular series feature anthropologist Temperance Brennan

 

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