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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,339,740 ratings — published 2011
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,925 ratings — published 1973
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,411 ratings — published 1997
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 8,884 ratings — published 2015
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 475,721 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 — 3,987 ratings — published 1923
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 29,383 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 28,638 ratings — published 2011
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,367 ratings — published 1955
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 76,057 ratings — published 2004
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,552 ratings — published 1966
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
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avg rating 4.22 — 3,679 ratings — published 2004
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 3,286 ratings — published 1928
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,514 ratings — published 1986
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,098 ratings — published 2013
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,674 ratings — published 1934
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,490 ratings — published 1922
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,653 ratings — published 1978
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 5,447 ratings — published 1974
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,261 ratings — published 2017
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 2,485 ratings — published 2015
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 32,286 ratings — published 2010
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 1,815 ratings — published 2008
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 1,078 ratings — published 1940
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,916 ratings — published 1985
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 17,120 ratings — published 1983
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,194 ratings — published 1992
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,727 ratings — published 1995
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 — 7,524 ratings — published 1998
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 99,353 ratings — published 2005
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,511 ratings — published 2019
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 953 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 111,955 ratings — published 2014
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,840 ratings — published 1996
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,716 ratings — published 1978
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 762 ratings — published 1986
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,726 ratings — published 1958
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 37,477 ratings — published 2018
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 759 ratings — published 2010
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,619 ratings — published 2013
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 607 ratings — published 2005
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 312 ratings — published 1987
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,188 ratings — published 1937
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,826 ratings — published 1977
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 408 ratings — published 2008
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,310 ratings — published 1982
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,731 ratings — published 1981
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 197,411 ratings — published 2021
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 34,897 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 — 6,830 ratings — published 2013
“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
“-What god are you praying to?
-I saw it in some of the random images from earth. I just wanted to know what they feel.”
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-I saw it in some of the random images from earth. I just wanted to know what they feel.”
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