| Term | Definition |
| Patterns of Culture | Ruth Benedict |
| Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest | Ruth Benedict |
| The Chrysanthemum and the Sword | Ruth Benedict |
| The Methods of Ethnology | Franz Boas |
| The Mind of Primitive Man | Franz Boas |
| Totem and Taboo | Sigmund Freud |
| The Rise of Anthropological Theory | Marvin Harris |
| Classificatory Systems of Relationship | Alfred Kroeber |
| The Superorganic | Alfred Kroeber |
| Configurations of Culture Growth | Alfred Kroeber |
| On the Principle of Order in Civilization | Alfred Kroeber |
| Cultural and Natural Areas | Alfred Kroeber |
| The Eighteen Professions | Alfred Kroeber |
| Primitive Society | Robert Lowie |
| Exogamy and the Classificatory Systems of Relationship | Robert Lowie |
| The German Ideology | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels |
| Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies | Margaret Mead |
| Growing Up in New Guinea | Margaret Mead |
| New Lives for Old | Margaret Mead |
| League of the Iroquois | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Systems of Consanguinity | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| Ancient Society | Lewis Henry Morgan |
| The World of Primitive Man | Paul Radin |
| Primitive Man as Philosopher | Paul Radin |
| The Culture Historical Method | Wilhelm Schmidt |
| Kulturkreise und Kulturschichten in Sudamerika | Wilhelm Schmidt |
| In the Beginning | Eliot G. Smith |
| The Social Organism | Herbert Spencer |
| Die Indianer Nordost Perus | Gunther Tessmann |
| Primitive Culture | E.B. Tylor |
| On A Method of Investigating the Origins of Institutions | E.B. Tylor |
| Researches in the Early History of Mankind | E.B. Tylor |
| Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber |
| Economy and Society | Max Weber |
| Social Organization of Ethnological Theory | Leslie White |