1945

• The Makah: A Study of Assimilation.
  Ph.D. dissertation, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA. 1945.

1949

• Life Among the Cattle-Owning Tonga: The Material Culture of a Zambian Tribe.
  The Occasional Papers of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, n.s., no. 6.
  Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia: Rhodes-Livingstone Museum, 1949.
  

1951

• Editor with Max Gluckman.
  Seven Tribes of British Central Africa.
  Published on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute.
  London: Oxford University Press, 1951.
  Reprinted with minor corrections and new preface. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1959, 1968.
  • Reviewed in:
    • African Affairs. January 1952, 51(202):74-76.
  • Africa Digest. 1954, 2(3):19.

1953

• The Makah Indians: A Study of an Indian Tribe in Modern American Society.
  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, and Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953.
  Reprinted 1974. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
  
  • Reviewed in:
    • Pacific Northwest Quarterly. January 1954, 45(1):36-37.

1958

• Marriage and Family Among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia.
  Published on behalf of the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia.
  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1958.
  Reprinted with minor corrections, 1966.
  • Reviewed in:
    • American Sociological Review. December 1959, 24(6):929. Reviewer: Ward H. Goodenough.

1960s

1960

• Social Organization of the Gwembe Tongo.
  Published on behalf of the Institute for Social Research, University of Zambia.
  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1960.
  Human problems of Kariba, vol. 1.
  Reprinted with minor corrections, 1967.
  • Reviewed in:
    • Sociological Review. March 1961, 9(1):111-112. Reviewer: Max Gluckman.
    • African Studies. 1963, 22:44.

1962

• The Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia: Social and Religious Studies.
  Published on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute.
  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1962.
  • Reviewed in:
    • The British Journal of Sociology. June 1963, 14(2):172. Reviewer: Lucy Mair.

1971

• The Social Consequences of Resettlement: the Impact of the Kariba Resettlement upon the Gwembe Tonga. Kariba Studies, No. 4.
  Published on behalf of the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia.
  Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1971.
  • Reviewed in:
    • International Migration Review. Winter 1972, 6(4):471-472. Reviewer: Charles W. Fisher.
    • Journal of Administration Overseas. 11:204.
    • Choice. 9:582.
    • Mankind. June 1973, 9(1):47-48. Reviewer: Olga Gostin.
    • American Anthropologist. December 1973, 75(6):1829-1831. Reviewer: W. Arens.
    • Community Development Journal. 3:195.

1974

• Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women.
  Berkeley, CA: Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley, 1974.
  
  
• Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Order.
  The 1973 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures presented at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.
  Chicago, IL: Aldine Publishing Company, 1974.
  • Reviewed in:
  • American Anthropologist. 1973, 78(1):197. Reviewer: Edwin A. Cook
  • Science. April 18, 1975. Reviewer: Richard D. Jones.
  • Choice. 12:261.
  • Times Literary Supplement. August 8, 1975.
    

1979

• Editor with George M. Foster, Thayer Scudder, and Robert V. Kemper.
  Long-term Field Research in Social Anthropology.
  Papers presented at a symposium held in Bug Wartenstein, Vienna, Austria, May 20-September 6, 1975.
  New York, NY: Academic Press, 1979.
  

1980

• with Thayer Scudder.
  Secondary Education and the Formation of an Elite: The Impact of Education on Gwembe District, Zambia.
  Studies in anthropology (Academic Press)
  New York, NY: Academic Press, 1980.

1982

• Planned Change: The Creation of A New Community.
  The 27th Bernard Moses Memorial Lecture.
  Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1982.

1983

• with Lenore Ralston and James N. Anderson.
  Voluntary Efforts in Decentralized Management: Opportunities and Constraints in Rural Development.
  Berkeley, CA: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1983.

1987

• Editor with Scott Morgan.
  People in Upheaval.
  Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies, 1987.

1988

• with Thayer Scudder.
  For Prayer and Profit: The Ritual, Economic, and Social Importance of Beer in Gwembe District, 1950-1983.
  Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988.

1991

• The History of Nampeyo.
  Published for the Institute for African Studies, University of Zambia.
  Lusaka: Kenneth Kaunda Foundation, 1991.