General Anthropology
(These are standard texts not absolutely up to date in every detail, or interpretative essays concerned with cultural change through time as well as in space.)
Kroeber, A. L.
Anthropology. 1948. Harcourt, Brace.
Linton, Ralph
The Tree of Culture. 1955. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Redfield, Robert
The Primitive World and Its Transformations. 1953. Cornell University Press.
Steward, Julian H.
Theory of Culture Change. 1955. University of Illinois Press.
White, Leslie
The Science of Culture. 1949. Farrar, Strauss.