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According to Wikipedia, James Urry is a New Zealand anthropologist, historian, author and professor at the School of Social and Cultural Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. Urry is considered an authority on the history of Russian Mennonites.

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"Notes and Queries on Anthropology" and the Development of Field Methods in British Anthropology, 1870-1920 (1972) (79)
Before Social Anthropology: Essays on the History of British Anthropology (1993) (41)
None But Saints: The Transformation of Mennonite Life in Russia, 1789-1889 (1989) (30)
The Ethnographer's Magic, and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology. (1994) (26)
A Century of Controversy: Ethnological Issues from 1860 to 1960. (1986) (22)
FOOD AND THE EARLY HISTORY OF CULTIVATION (1985) (19)
One Quilt Many Pieces: A Guide to Mennonite Groups in Canada (2008) (16)
Of Borders and Boundaries: Reflections on Mennonite Unity and Separation in the Modern World (1999) (15)
After the rooster crowed: Some issues concerning the interpertation of Mennonite/Bolshevik relations during the early Soviet period (1995) (14)
The Lost 'Macassar Language' of Northern Australia (2011) (13)
Headhunters and Body-Snatchers (1989) (13)
Beyond the frontier: European influence, aborigines and the concept of ‘traditional’ culture∗ (1979) (13)
The Mennonite Commonwealth in Imperial Russia Revisited (2010) (12)
Mennonites, Nationalism and the State in Imperial Russia (1994) (12)
A mennostaat for the Mennovolk? Mennonite Immigrant Fantasies in Canada in the 1930s (1996) (12)
Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe - Russia - Canada, 1525 to 1980 (2006) (11)
From zoology to ethnology (1982) (10)
W. E. Armstrong and Social Anthropology at Cambridge 1922-1926 (1985) (10)
Who are the Mennonites ? (1983) (9)
“The Snares of Reason“—Changing Mennonite Attitudes to “Knowledge“ in Nineteenth-Century Russia (1983) (7)
THE ETHNOGRAPHICISATION OF ANGLO-AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY:CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES (2006) (6)
Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford (1970) (5)
The closed and the open : social and religious change amongst the Mennonites in Russia (1789-1889) (1978) (5)
Mennonites and the Crimean War, 1854-1856 (1989) (4)
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment H. F. Vermeulen Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. pp xxvi, + 718, notes, figures, bibliog., index, ISBN 978‐0‐8032‐5542‐5. USD$75.00 (Hc.) (2016) (4)
A Select Bibliography of Aboriginal History and Social Change: Theses and Published Research to 1976 (1977) (4)
Art, Aborigines and Chinese: A Nineteenth Century Drawing By the Kwatkwat Artist Tommy McRae (2011) (4)
Throught the Eye of a Needel: Wealth and the Mennonite Experience in Imperial Russia (1985) (3)
On the History of British Social Anthropology (1997) (3)
Prolegomena to the Study of Mennonite Society in Russia 1880-1914 (1990) (3)
Protecting Mammon. Some dilemmas of Mennonite Non-resistance in late Imperial Russia and the origins of the Selbstschutz (1991) (3)
Fate, Hate and Denial: Ingrid Rimland's Lebensraum! (1999) (2)
The Social Background to the Emergence of the Mennonite Brethren in Nineteenth Century Russia (1988) (2)
Aborigines, history and semantics—a reply (1980) (2)
The Wallace Edwin Armstrong Papers in the National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia (Ms 6507) (1983) (1)
A Matter of Diplomacy: The British Government and the Mennonite Immigration from Russia to Manitoba, 1872-1875 (2013) (1)
Book Review:The Invention of Primitive Society: Transformations of an Illusion Adam Kuper (1991) (1)
From speech to literature: Low German and Mennonite identity in two worlds (1991) (1)
Gender, Generation and Social Identity in Russian Mennonite Society (1999) (1)
Wealth and Poverty in the Mennonite Experience: Dilemmas and Challenges (2009) (1)
Russian Traditional Culture: Religion, Gender, and Customary Law. (1994) (1)
Time and Memory : Secular and Sacred Aspects Of the World of the Russian Mennonites and Their Descendants (2012) (1)
Old Questions: New Answers?: Some Thoughts on the Origin and Antiquity of Man in Australia (2011) (1)
A Cathlic Priest's Account of the Mennonites of Manitoba in 1883: Father Bitsche on the Mennonites (1998) (1)
Bibliographies on the Australian Aborigine: An Annotated Listing [Book Review] (1979) (0)
the Significance of the Peter Baun Russian Mennonite Archive: A Review Essay (1997) (0)
Family, Curch, and market. A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930 (1994) (0)
After Identity: Mennonite Writing in North America ed. by Robert Zacharias (review) (2017) (0)
Makhno and Memory: Anarchist and Mennonite Narratives of Ukraine's Civil War, 1917–1921. By Sean Patterson. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020. xvi, 199 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. Maps. $31.95, paper. (2021) (0)
Mennonites in Canada, 1939–1970: A People Transformed by T.D. Regehr (review) (2016) (0)
Prokgomena to the Study of Mennonite Society in Russia (1990) (0)
David G. Rempel (November 17(n.s.30) 1889- June 27 1992) (1993) (0)
"All that glisters...": Delbert Plett and the Place of the Kleine Gemeinde in Russian-Mennonite History (1986) (0)
AMIRIA HENARE, Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xix+323. ISBN 0-521-83591-7. £48.00, $80.00 (hardback). (2007) (0)
Nur Heilige: Mennoniten in Russland, 1789-1889 [translation of None but Saints: The Transformation of Mennonite Life in Russia 1789-1889 (1989)] (2005) (0)
Martha Ann Chowning (1929–2016) (2016) (0)
Delbert F. Plett (1948-2004): A Tribute (2005) (0)
The Mennonites in Russia : A russian encyclopedia entry from 1896 (1996) (0)
The Duban Settlement (1990) (0)
The Cost of Community: The Funding and Economic Management of the Russian Mennonite Commenwealth Before 1914 (1992) (0)
John J. Friesen. Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites (2007) (0)
Book Review: Mark Francis, Governors and Settlers: Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-1860 (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1992), pp. x, 331. $69.95 (1992) (0)
The Cost of Cornrnu and Ec of t;he Russian (1992) (0)
The Riddle of Amish Culture (1990) (0)
German Nationalism and the First World War: Hermann G. Mannhardt's Heroic Deeds and Heroes (2014) (0)
JOURNAL REVIEW (1999) (0)
Compromising Correspondence M. P. K.Sorrenson (ed.). Na To Hoa Aroha: From Your Dear Friend. The Correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck 1925-1950, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 269pp., $35. (1987) (0)
A History of Ukraine (1998) (0)
Review: The Danzig Church: Its Origin and History from 1569–1919 (2014) (0)
Metaphors of Intepretation: Essays in Honour of W.E.H. Stanner [Book Review] (1987) (0)
er the rooster crowed : Some isstles concerning die interpretation of Mennonite / Bolslie relations during d ~ e early Soviet period (2006) (0)
Anthropology in Australia: Essays to Honour 50 Years of Mankind [Book Review] (1983) (0)
Agency and Structure in Harry Lowen's Road to Freedom: A Review Article (2001) (0)
Consuming Places@@@Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity (1996) (0)
The Reading Worlds of Russlaender and Kanadier Mennonites: Print, Libraries, and Readers in the Origins of Mennonite Creative Writing (2010) (0)
Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists 1774 -1905 (2010) (0)
Context, Cause and Consequence in Understanding the Molochna Land Crisis: A Reply to John Staples (2015) (0)
Automobilities [Japanese translation] (2010) (0)
Saints and Sinner: The Klein Gemeinde in Imperial Russia 1812 to 1875 (2001) (0)
Shankland, David (ed.). Westermarck. xiv, 212 pp., illus., bibliogrs. Canon Pyon, Herefordshire: Sean Kingston Publishing, 2014. £55.00 (paper) (2015) (0)
Agency and S cture in Harry Loewen ' s Road to Freedom : A Review (2006) (0)
Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites (review) (2009) (0)
A Tale of Two Newspapers: Die Mennonitische Rundschau (1880-2007) and der Bote (1924-2008) (2012) (0)
Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada (2009) (0)
The Retreat of Scientific Racism: Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars. ELAZAR BARKAN (1996) (0)
Anthropology's Homer: Michael Young's Malinowski (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
Lawrence Klippenstein and Jacob Dick, Mennonite Alternative Service in Russia: The Storyof Abram Dück and His Colleagues, 1911-1917 (2014) (0)
Dyn: The Journal of the Durham Anthropological Society. (1971) (0)
ugh the Eye of a Needle : Wealth d t h e M Experience in Imperial Russia (2006) (0)
Writing Yourself Into History (1997) (0)
Gender, Generation Social Identity in Russi onite Society (1999) (0)
Growing up with Cities: The Mennonite Experience in Imperial Russia and the Early Soviet Union (2002) (0)
In Memoriam: Harry Loewen (1930-2015) (2016) (0)
GENERAL/THEORETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Savage Within: The Social History of British Anthropology, 1885–1945. Henrika Kuklick (1993) (0)
Sera‐Shriar, Efram. The making of British anthropology, 1813‐1871. xi, 255 pp., figs, illus., bibliogr. London: Pickering & Chatto Limited, 2013. £60.00 (cloth) (2014) (0)

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