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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,296,954 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.04 — 465,742 ratings — published 1997
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,892 ratings — published 1973
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,494 ratings — published 2015
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.20 — 90,199 ratings — published 1997
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,904 ratings — published 1923
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,650 ratings — published 2021
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,252 ratings — published 1955
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,291 ratings — published 2004
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,743 ratings — published 2011
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 23 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,562 ratings — published 2004
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,248 ratings — published 1928
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,064 ratings — published 2013
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,471 ratings — published 1966
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,471 ratings — published 1922
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,031 ratings — published 2017
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,285 ratings — published 1974
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 18 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,501 ratings — published 1986
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,600 ratings — published 1978
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,663 ratings — published 1934
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,067 ratings — published 1940
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,737 ratings — published 1983
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,390 ratings — published 2015
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,863 ratings — published 1985
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 31,975 ratings — published 2010
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 14 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,176 ratings — published 1992
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,678 ratings — published 1995
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,776 ratings — published 1977
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,170 ratings — published 1998
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,790 ratings — published 2008
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,624 ratings — published 1978
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.05 — 96,873 ratings — published 2005
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,713 ratings — published 1958
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.14 — 916 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,299 ratings — published 2014
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 599 ratings — published 2005
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 307 ratings — published 1987
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 760 ratings — published 1986
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,459 ratings — published 2019
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 731 ratings — published 2010
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,555 ratings — published 2013
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 8,768 ratings — published 1890
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,806 ratings — published 1996
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.62 — 402 ratings — published 2008
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,298 ratings — published 1982
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,715 ratings — published 1981
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 186,379 ratings — published 2021
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 35,840 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 33,203 ratings — published 2017
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 6,602 ratings — published 2013
“As Zorch’s head lunges, Rex uses two hands and wraps them around his feathered neck. Spots of brown feathers fly as Zorch screeches in pain. Rex clutches the bird’s neck. For the first time in his life, Zorch begins to feel weak. He coughs loudly as the lizard slams the bird’s back into the ground with a resounding thud.
With his foot, Zorch slices Rex’s abdomen with his talon. The lizard yells and spits in pain as the sting worsens as the seconds go by. He feels warm blood drip from the wound. But his grip doesn’t falter. Zorch begins to turn a shade of blue as the lizard mounts his enemy. Rex’s muscles flex under the hot sunlight.
- Akena: A Sword and Planet Tale, Excerpt”
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With his foot, Zorch slices Rex’s abdomen with his talon. The lizard yells and spits in pain as the sting worsens as the seconds go by. He feels warm blood drip from the wound. But his grip doesn’t falter. Zorch begins to turn a shade of blue as the lizard mounts his enemy. Rex’s muscles flex under the hot sunlight.
- Akena: A Sword and Planet Tale, Excerpt”
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“We're not people," he said. "We're the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine."
"Men are fighters," Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. "Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It's always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
"Men are fighters," Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. "Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It's always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
