Theory and Method
*Gellner, David N.: "Introduction: What is the Anthropology og Buddhism About?" i Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 21:2 , 1990.
*Lewis, Todd T.: "Buddhist Communities: Historical Precedents and Etnographic Paradigms" i Stephen D. Glazier (red.): Anthropology of Religion: A Handbook, 1997. Greenwood Press.
*Obeyesekere, Gananath: "The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism" i Journal of Asian Studies 22 (2), 1963.
*Ramble, Charles: "How Buddhist are Buddhist Communities? The Construction of Tradition in two Lamaist Villages" i Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. 21:2, 1990.
*Tambiah, Stanley J.: "Buddhism and This-Worldly Activity" i Modern Asian Studies 7 (1): 1-20, 1973.
*Can be bought as a compendium at the copy outlet at Akademika.
Theravada Buddhism
Gombrich, Richard and Gananath Obeyesekere: Buddhism Transformed. Religious Change in Sri Lanka, 1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Mahayana Buddhism
Goldstein, Melvyn C. and Kapstein, Matthew T.: Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet: Religious Revival and Cultural Identity, 1998. Berkeley/ Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Or
Mumford, Stan R.: Himalayan Dialogue: Tibetan Lamas and Gurung Shamans in Nepal, 1989. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press.
Recommended literature for further reading
Carrithers, Michael: The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study, 1993. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
Gombrich: Richard F.: Buddhist Precept and Practice: Traditional Buddhism in the Rural Highlands of Ceylon, Revised Edition 1991. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
Huber, Toni: The Cult of Pure Crystal Mountain: Popular Pilgrimage and Visionary Landscape in Southeast Tibet, 1999. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Samuel, Geoffrey: Civilized Shamans: Buddhism in Tibetan Societies, 1993. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja: Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand, 1970. London: Cambridge University Press.
Ramble, Charles: The Navel of the Demoness. Tibetan Buddhism and Civil Religion in Highland Nepal, 2008. New York: Oxford University Press.
Spiro, Melford E.: Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes, (1979) 1982. Berkeley: University of California Press.