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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1786 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,315,500 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1510 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,937 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 761 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,359 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 633 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,146 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 588 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,509 ratings — published 2004
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 558 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,906 ratings — published 1973
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 543 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,344 ratings — published 2015
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 480 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,933 ratings — published 1923
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 415 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,297 ratings — published 1955
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,007 ratings — published 1991
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,740 ratings — published 2005
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,755 ratings — published 1997
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,267 ratings — published 1928
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,671 ratings — published 1934
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 327 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,517 ratings — published 1966
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 315 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,276 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,807 ratings — published 1890
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,598 ratings — published 2018
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,125 ratings — published 2010
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,662 ratings — published 2015
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,717 ratings — published 1958
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 270 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,622 ratings — published 2004
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 263 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,353 ratings — published 1974
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,920 ratings — published 1983
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,794 ratings — published 1962
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.87 — 108,832 ratings — published 2014
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,110 ratings — published 1978
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,629 ratings — published 1978
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,479 ratings — published 1922
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,798 ratings — published 1977
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,130 ratings — published 2017
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,364 ratings — published 2008
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,303 ratings — published 1982
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,997 ratings — published 1967
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,089 ratings — published 1949
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,329 ratings — published 1946
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,550 ratings — published 1961
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,142 ratings — published 2007
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,705 ratings — published 1995
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,515 ratings — published 1988
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 189 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,505 ratings — published 1986
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,720 ratings — published 1981
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,544 ratings — published 1985
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,319 ratings — published 1998
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,179 ratings — published 1937
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,959 ratings — published 2020
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,717 ratings — published 2013
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 176 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,183 ratings — published 1992
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,312 ratings — published 2018
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,171 ratings — published 2009
“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind as a single species.”
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“I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.”
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
― Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
