I would like to add anything by Alan Macfarlane, particularly his Huxley lecture, and the core books recommended in the Cambridge University course on Social an

I would like to add anything by Alan Macfarlane, particularly his Huxley lecture, and the core books recommended in the Cambridge University course on Social and Cultural Anthropology. I'd then suggest taking the knife of a kind of post-modernist scepticism to all of that perhaps via a Native American or African eye such as Ekeocha's "Target Africa" and seeing what a (necessarily) parochial view it is, to get, as it were, a bigger picture of the big picture.