1937 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande. Oxford University Press. 1976 abridged edition: ISBN 0-19-874029-8
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1949 The Sanusi of Cyrenaica. London: Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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1956 Nuer Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
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1965 Theories of Primitive Religion. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-823131-8
1967 The Zande Trickster. Oxford: Clarendon Press.