We recommend these books on anthropology and worldview. Our friend Craig Hendrickson helped prepare this list. We welcome your comments and recommendations.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Small Places, Big Issues. London: Pluto, 2001. An introduction to cultural anthropology, providing insights into different cultural subsystems such as economics, marriage and family, religion, power and organization, modes of thought, and ethnicity.Hiebert, Paul G. Transforming Worldviews. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2008. Hiebert’s magnum opus discussing how missionaries can work toward the spiritual transformation of worldviews to induce lasting spiritual change.
Lingenfelter, Sherwood G. Transforming Culture. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1998. Assists Christian missionaries in interpreting and understanding the social structures, characteristics and practices of different culture groups.
Strauss, Claudia, and Naomi Quinn. A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. The first four chapters present an excellent description of how individuals and groups make meaning in their contexts.
