> Ethnographes et anthropologues 
The total number of books published by Jack Goody between 1954 and 2012 is 46, including 32 books and 14 edited volumes. Below is a list of Goody’s books and edited volumes in a chronological and a systematic order.
Books and edited volumes, 1954-2012
1954
The Ethnography of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, West of the White Volta. London : The Colonial Office. Mimeographed, ii + 59 pp.
1956
The Social Organisation of the LoWiili. London : Her Majesty’s Stationary Office. vi + 119 pp.
1958
(ed.) The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. vii + 145 pp.
1961
David Tait (ed.), The Konkomba of Northern Ghana. Edited from his published and unpublished writings by Jack Goody. Oxford : Oxford University Press. xviii + 255 pp.
1962
Death, Property and the Ancestors : A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press/London : Tavistock Publications. x + 452 pp.
1965
Jack Goody and Kwame Arhin (eds.), Ashanti and the Northwest. Legon : University of Ghana. Mimeographed, 185 pp. [Introduction dated : Legon, January 1966.]
1966
(ed.), Succession to High Office. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. viii + 181 pp.
J. C. Dougah (ed.), Wa and its People. With an introduction by Jack Goody. Legon : University of Ghana. Mimeographed, ii + 117 pp.
1967
Joseph Adam Braimah and Jack Goody, Salaga : The Struggle for Power. London : Longmans, Green. xviii + 222 pp.
1968
(ed.), Literacy in Traditional Societies. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. vi + 350 pp.
1969
Comparative Studies in Kinship. London : Routledge & Kegan Paul/Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press. xvii + 261 pp.
1971
Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa. Oxford : Oxford University Press. viii + 88 pp.
(ed.), Kinship : Selected Readings. Harmondsworth : Penguin Books. 399 pp.
1972
The Myth of the Bagre. Oxford : Clarendon Press. x + 381 pp. [Includes the White Bagre and the Black Bagre in Dagari and English.]
1973
Jack Goody and Stanley J. Tambiah, Bridewealth and Dowry. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. x + 169 pp.
(ed.), The Character of Kinship. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xii + 251 pp. [Published on the occasion of Meyer Fortes’s retirement.]
1975
(ed.), Changing Social Structure in Ghana : Essays in the Comparative Study of a New State and an Old Tradition. London : International African Institute. ix + 285 pp.
Jack Goody and Nelson O. Addo, Siblings in Ghana. Legon : University of Ghana. 116 pp. [Published by the Population Dynamics Programme, University of Ghana and the Institute of
Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana.]
1976
Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk and E. P. Thompson (eds.), Family and Inheritance : Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. vi + 421 pp.
Production and Reproduction : A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xiii + 157 pp.
1977
The Domestication of the Savage Mind. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. x + 179 pp.
1980
Jack Goody and Sunkuol Wura Der Kumboono Gandah (eds.), Une Récitation du Bagré. Précédée d’une introduction de Jack Goody. Paris : Armand Colin, 405 pp.
1982
Cooking, Cuisine and Class : A Study in Comparative Sociology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. viii + 253 pp.
1983
The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xii + 308 pp. [2d French edition with an introduction by Martine Segalen and avant-propos by Jack Goody, 2012.]
1986
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xvii + 213 pp.
1987
The Interface between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xxi + 328 pp.
Meyer Fortes (ed.), Religion, Morality and the Person : Essays on Tallensi Religion. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xiii + 347 pp.
1990
Jack Goody and Emanuel Marx (eds.), Emrys L. Peters. The Bedouin of Cyrenaica : Studies in Personal and Corporate Power. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. x + 310 pp.
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive : Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xix + 542 pp.
1993
The Culture of Flowers. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xvii + 462 pp.
1995
The Expansive Moment : The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970, viii + 235 pp. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
1996
The East in the West. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. x + 295 pp
1997
Representations and Contradictions : Ambivalence towards Images, Theatre, Fiction, Relics and Sexuality. Oxford : Blackwell Publishers. vii + 293 pp.
1998
Food and Love : A Cultural History of East and West. London : Verso. ix + 305 pp.
2000
The Power of the Written Tradition. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution Press. viii + 192 pp.
The European Family : An Historico-Anthropological Essay. Oxford/Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers. x + 209 pp. [Original title The Family in European History.]
2002
Jack Goody and Sunkuol Wura Der Kumboono Gandah, The Third Bagre : A Myth Revisited. Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press. xxvii + 479 pp. [In English and Dagara.]
2004
Islam in Europe. Cambridge/Malden, MA : Polity Press. viii + 178 pp.
Capitalism and Modernity : The Great Debate. Cambridge/Malden, MA : Polity Press. vii + 200 pp.
Sunkuol Wura Der Kumboono Gandah (ed.), The Silent Rebel. Nairobi : James Currey & Legon : Institute of African Studies. 288 pp.
2006
The Theft of History. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. x + 342 pp.
2007
Ghana Observed, Africa Reconsidered. Legon : Institute of African Studies. vi + 357 pp.
2009
Renaissances : The One or the Many ? Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. ix + 322 pp.
The Eurasian Miracle. Cambridge/Malden, MA : Polity Press. v + 159 pp.
2010
Myth, Ritual and the Oral. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. vi + 180 pp.
2012
Metals, Culture and Capitalism : An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. xix + 349 pp.
Analytical table of Jack Goody’s books and edited volumes, 1954-2012
1. Ethnography, anthropology and history of Africa (18 books)
– The Ethnography of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (London 1954)
– The Social Organisation of the LoWiili (London 1956)
– Death, Property and the Ancestors : A Study of the Mortuary Customs of the LoDagaa (Stanford and London 1962)
– (eds.) Jack Goody and Kwame Arhin, Ashanti and the Northwest (Legon 1965)
– (ed.) Succession to High Office (Cambridge 1966)
– Joseph Adam Braimah and Jack Goody, Salaga : The Struggle for Power (London 1967)
– Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (Oxford 1971)
– The Myth of the Bagre (Oxford 1972)
– (ed.) Changing Social Structure in Ghana (London 1975)
– Jack Goody and Nelson O. Addo, Siblings in Ghana (Legon 1975)
– Jack Goody and S. W. D. K. Gandah (eds.) Une Récitation du Bagré (Paris 1980)
– Jack Goody and S. W. D. K. Gandah, The Third Bagre : A Myth Revisited (Durham, NC 2000)
– Ghana Observed, Africa Reconsidered (Legon 2007)
Including five books written by other scholars and edited or co-edited by Goody :
– (ed.) David Tait, The Konkomba of Northern Ghana (Oxford 1961)
– (ed.) J. C. Dougah, Wa and its People (Legon 1966)
– (ed.) Meyer Fortes, Religion, Morality and the Person : Essays on Tallensi Religion (Cambridge 1987)
– (eds.) Emrys L. Peters, The Bedouin of Cyrenaica (ed. with Emanuel Marx, Cambridge 1990)
– (ed.) Sunkuol Wura Der Kumboono Gandah, The Silent Rebel (Nairobi 2004)
2. Kinship, marriage and the domestic domain (10 books)
– (ed.) The Developmental Cycle in Domestic Groups (Cambridge 1958)
– Comparative Studies in Kinship (London 1969)
– (ed.) Kinship : Selected Readings (Harmondsworth 1971)
– Jack Goody and Stanley J. Tambiah, Bridewealth and Dowry (Cambridge 1973)
– (ed.) The Character of Kinship (Cambridge 1973)
– (eds.) Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk and E. P. Thompson, Family and Inheritance : Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800 (Cambridge 1976)
– Production and Reproduction : A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain (Cambridge 1976)
– The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Cambridge 1983)
– The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive : Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia (Cambridge 1990)
– The European Family : An Historico-Anthropological Essay (Oxford/Malden, MA 2000)
3. Orality, literacy and the written tradition (7 books)
– (ed.) Literacy in Traditional Societies (Cambridge 1968)
– The Domestication of the Savage Mind (Cambridge 1977)
– The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society (Cambridge 1986)
– The Interface between the Written and the Oral (Cambridge 1987)
– Representations and Contradictions : Ambivalence towards Images, Theatre, Fiction, Relics and Sexuality (Oxford 1997)
– The Power of the Written Tradition (Washington, DC 2000)
– Myth, Ritual and the Oral (Cambridge 2010)
4. Comparative studies of culture and society (10 books)
– Cooking, Cuisine and Class : A Study in Comparative Sociology (Cambridge 1982)
– The Culture of Flowers (Cambridge 1993)
– The East in the West (Cambridge 1996)
– Food and Love : A Cultural History of East and West (London 1998)
– Islam in Europe (Cambridge/Malden, MA 2004)
– Capitalism and Modernity : The Great Debate (Cambridge/Malden, MA 2004)
– The Theft of History (Cambridge 2006)
– Renaissances : The One or the Many ? (Cambridge 2009)
– The Eurasian Miracle (Cambridge/Malden, MA 2009)
– Metals, Culture and Capitalism : The Origins of the Modern World (Cambridge 2012)
5. History of anthropology (1 book)
– The Expansive Moment : The Rise of Social Anthropology in Britain and Africa, 1918-1970 (Cambridge 1995)
Not yet published in English (2 titles)
– 1992. Beyond the Walls [war memoir]. Cambridge, private printing. St John’s College manuscript W.55. This manuscript was published in Italian translation : Oltre i muri. Rome 1997 ; French translation : Au-delà des murs. Paris, 2004. Part of an autobiography “Cambridge made us and we made Cambridge.” Typescript, 2010, 435 pp.
– 2012. The Banker and the Barrow Girl : Essays Beyond the Frame. Typescript, 144 pp.
Dissertations (2 titles)
– 1952. The Social Organization of the Lo Wiili, a people of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. Typescript, vi + 233 pp. [Text for a B.Litt. in Social Anthropology, supervised by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Oxford, January 1952]
– 1954. A study of the ritual institutions of the WiiliLo and DagabaLo of the Gold Coast, with special reference to death, inheritance and the ancestors. Typescript, iii + 410 pp. [PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, June 1954]
Conclusion
In the sixty years of his scholarly career, Jack Goody (1919-2015) published 46 books, including 32 books and 14 edited volumes. Cambridge University Press published 22 of these : 15 books and 7 edited volumes. Many are monographs, based on fieldwork and extensive library research. Other books are collections of Goody’s articles, many of which were published previously in journals or handbooks. Most of his books were translated in foreign languages ; many of these are listed in the bibliography he and his secretary and research assistants drafted until 2015. He also wrote two dissertations and two not yet published book-length typescripts. In addition, Goody’s bibliography lists 370 scholarly articles, including 22 reviews. He appeared in at least 36 interviews and featured in 4 documentary films.
Jack Goody between Social Anthropology and World History. Edited by Chris Hann and Han F. Vermeulen. Berlin/Münster : LIT Verlag (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia 50), 2024. x + 397 pp. ISBN 978-3-643-91598-6.
Halle (Saale), June 2023, updated February 2025