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List of VFPA Volumes

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Series Editors

  • Cornelius Osgood (1943—1947), Founding Editor
  • Ralph Linton (1948—1951)
  • A. Irving Hallowell (1951—1955)
  • Sherwood L. Washburn (1956—1961)
  • Sol Tax (1962—1970)
  • Colin M. Turnbull (1971—1976)
  • Arthur Jelinek (1976-1979)

Series Volumes

  1. "Ethnography of the Yagua," by Paul Fejos. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 1. Viking Fund: New York. 1943.
  2. "Yokuts Language of California," by Stanley Newman. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 2. Viking Fund: New York. 1944.
  3. "Archaeological Explorations in the Cordillera Vilcabamba, Southeastern Peru," by Paul Fejos. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 3. Viking Fund: New York. 1944.
  4. "Peruvian Archeology in 1942," by Alfred Kroeber. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 4. Viking Fund: New York. 1944.
  5. "Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest," by George F. Carter. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 5. Viking Fund: New York. 1945
  6. "Linguistic Structures of Native America," edited by Harry Hoijer, M.R. Haas,  et al. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 6. Viking Fund: New York. 1946.
  7. "Excavations of Apatzingan, Michoacan," by Isabel Kelly. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 7. Viking Fund: New York. 1947.
  8. "A Navaho Autobiography," by Walter Dyk. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 8. Viking Fund: New York. 1947.
  9. "San Blas Cuna Acculturation: An Introduction," by D.B. Stout. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 9. Viking Fund: New York. 1947.
  10. "The Common Descent Group in China and Its Functions," by Hsien Chin Hu. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 10. Viking Fund: New York. 1948.
  11. "Tepexpan Man," by Helmut de Terra, Javier Romero, and T.D. Steward. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 11. Viking Fund: New York. 1949.
  12. "Law and Government of the Grand River Iroquois," by John A. Noon. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 12. Viking Fund: New York. 1949.
  13. "Peyote Music," by David P. McAllester. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 13. Viking Fund: New York. 1949.
  14. "Ethiopic Documents: Gurage," by Wolf Leslau. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 14. Viking Fund: New York. 1950.
  15. "Paiute Sorcery," by Beatrice Blyth Whiting. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 15. Viking Fund: New York. 1950.
  16. "Sexual Behavior in Western Arnhem Land," by Roland M. Berndt. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 16. Viking Fund: New York. 1951.
  17. "The Black Carib of British Honduras," by Douglas MacRae Taylor. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 17. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1951.
  18. "Change and History," by Margaret T. Hodgen. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 18. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1952.
  19. "Tlatilco and the Pre-Classic Cultures of the New World," by Muriel N. Porter. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 19. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1953.
  20. "Truk: Man In Paradise," by Thomas F. Galdwin and Seymour Sarason. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 20. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1953.
  21. "Social Structure and Culture Change in a Lebanese Village," by John Gulick. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 21. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1955.
  22. "Studies in Cheremis: The Supernatural," by Thomas Sebeok and Frances J. Ingemann. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 22. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1956.
  23. "Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the New World," by Gordon R. Willey. Viking Fund Publications in Anthrhopology, 23. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1956.
  24. "Essays in Linguistics," by Joseph H. Greenberg. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 24. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 1957.
  25. "Obok: A Study of Social Structure in Eurasia," by Elizabeth E. Bacon. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 25. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 1958.
  26. "The Content and Style of an Oral Literature: Clackamas Chinook Myths and Tales," by Melville Jacobs. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 26. University of Chicago Press: Chicago. 1959.
  27. "Culture and Conquest: America’s Spanish Heritage," by George M. Foster. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 27. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1960.
  28. "The Application of Quantitative Methods in Archaeology," edited by Robert Heizer and Sherburne F. Cook. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 28. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1960.
  29. "Social Structure in Southeast Asia," edited by George P. Murdock. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 29. Wenner-Gren Foundation: New York. 1960.
  30. "The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru," by Margaret A. Towle. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 30. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1961.
  31. "Social Life of Early Man," edited by Sherwood Washburn. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 31. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1961.
  32. "Courses Toward Urban Life: Archeological Considerations of Some Cultural Alternates," edited by Robert Braidwood and Gordon R. Willey. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 32. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1962.
  33. "A Roster of Civilizations and Culture," edited by Alfred Kroeber. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 33. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1962.
  34. "Japanese Culture: Its Development and Characteristics," by Robert J. Smith and Richard K. Beardsley. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 34. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1962.
  35. "Sturgeon Hooks of Eurasia," by Geza de Rohan-Csernak. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 35. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1963.
  36. "African Ecology and Human Evolution," edited by F. Clark Howell and Fracois Bourliere. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 36. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1963.
  37. "Classification and Human Evolution," edited by Sherwood Washburn. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 37. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1963.
  38. "Dances of Anahuac: The Choreography and Music of Precortesian Dances," by Gertrude Kurath and Samuel Marti. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 38. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1964.
  39. "Prehistoric Art of the Western Mediterranean and the Sahara," by Luis Pericot Garcia and Eduardo Ripoll Perello. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 39. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1964.
  40. "Readings in Early Anthropology," edited by J.S. Slotkin. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 40. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1965.
  41. "Ceramics and Man," edited by Frederick R. Matson. Viking Fund Publications in Anthroplogy, 41. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1965.
  42. "The Peyote Religion Among the Navaho," by David F. Aberle. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 42. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1965.
  43. "The Social Organization of the Marri Baluch," by Robert N. Pehrson. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 43. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1966.
  44. "Ethnomusicology of the Flathead Indians," by Alan P. Merriam. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 44. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1967.
  45. "Genetic Diversity and Human Behavior," edited by J.N. Spuhler. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 45. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1967.
  46. "Proper Peasants," edited by F. Fel and T. Hofer. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 46. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1968.
  47. "Structure and Change in Indian Society," by Milton Singer and Bernard S. Cohn. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 47. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1968.
  48. "The Wahi Wanyatura: Economics in an African Society," by Harold K. Schneider. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 48. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1969.
  49. "The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea," by Karl Heider. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 49. Aldine Publishing Co.: Chicago. 1970.
  50. "Esperanza: An Ethnographic Study of a Peasant Community in Puerto Rico," by Carlos Buitrago Ortiz. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 50. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1973.
  51. "The Puerto Ricans: Culture Change and Langauge Deviance," by Ruby R. Leavitt. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 51. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1974.
  52. "Anthropology, History, and Cultural Change," by Margaret T. Hodgen. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 52. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1974.
  53. "The Methodology of Anthropological Comparisons: An Analysis of Comparative Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology," by Gopala Sarana. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 53. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1975.
  54. "Music in the Culture of Northern Afghanistan," by Mark Slobin. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 54. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1976.
  55. "The Aith Waryaghar of the Moroccan Rif: An Ethnography and History," by David M. Hart. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 55. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1976.
  56. "Agricultural Terracing in the Aboriginal New World," by R.A. Donkin. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 56. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1979.
  57. "Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran," by Patty Jo Watson. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 57. University of Arizona Press: Tucson. 1979.