Most Read This Week In Anthropology

Anthropology (/ænθrɵˈpɒlədʒi/) is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος), "human being", and -logia (-λογία), "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German philosopher Magnus Hundt.

Anthropology's basic concerns are "What defines Homo sapiens?", "Who are the ancestors of modern Homo sapiens?", "What are humans' physical traits?", "How do humans behave?", "Why are there variations and differences among different groups of humans?", "How has the evolutiona
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
Magnifica Humanitas: Lettre encyclique sur la protection de la personne humaine à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations
The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)
Ik ga leven
The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
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Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase (Nuevos cuadernos Anagrama, #61)
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive
Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
Unstoppable Us, Volume 1: How Humans Took Over the World
We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Traversal
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Futuro ancestral
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Lost Worlds: How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World
Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from History's Greatest Civilisations
Raving
After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations
Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Humanish: What Talking to Your Cat or Naming Your Car Reveals About the Uniquely Human Need to Humanize
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity
God: An Anatomy
Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories
Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Follow Me to Africa
Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
The World: A Family History of Humanity
The World According to Color: A Cultural History
Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya (Unearthing the Past)
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3 - The Masters of History
The Prophets of Doom
Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age
Fear: An Alternative History of the World
The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living
Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
You're Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That’s Good News
Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction
The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
A History of Ghosts, Spirits and the Supernatural (Esoteric Histories)
Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity
Happy Death Club: Essays on Death, Grief & Bereavement Across Cultures
The Shortest History of Migration: When, Why, and How Humans Move - From the Prehistoric Peopling of the Planet to Today and Tomorrow's Migrants (The Shortest History Series)
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
X Marks the Spot: The gripping true story behind the world's most extraordinary archaeological discoveries
Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

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J.R.R. Tolkien
Studies [on the origin of fairy-stories] are, however, scientific (at least in intent); they are the pursuit of folklorists or anthropologists: that is of people using the stories not as they were meant to be used, but as a quarry from which to dig evidence, or information, about matters in which they are interested. ...with regard to fairy stories, I feel that it is more interesting, and also in its way more difficult, to consider what they are, what they have become for us, and what values th ...more
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Roger Zelazny
I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine.
Roger Zelazny, Doorways in the Sand

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