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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1768 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,300,714 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1500 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 466,634 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 743 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,815 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 631 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,823 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 586 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,335 ratings — published 2004
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 554 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,898 ratings — published 1973
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 546 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.18 — 292,736 ratings — published 2015
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 475 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,912 ratings — published 1923
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 412 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,261 ratings — published 1955
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,922 ratings — published 1991
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,045 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 383 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,323 ratings — published 1997
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 355 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,248 ratings — published 1928
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,664 ratings — published 1934
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 321 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,485 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 — 11,232 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,777 ratings — published 1890
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 291 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,018 ratings — published 2010
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 36,011 ratings — published 2018
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 283 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,527 ratings — published 2015
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,714 ratings — published 1958
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 267 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,573 ratings — published 2004
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,309 ratings — published 1974
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,779 ratings — published 1983
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,788 ratings — published 1962
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 242 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,830 ratings — published 2014
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,739 ratings — published 1978
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 235 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,605 ratings — published 1978
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,473 ratings — published 1922
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,777 ratings — published 1977
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,255 ratings — published 2008
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,942 ratings — published 1967
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,055 ratings — published 2017
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,298 ratings — published 1982
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,846 ratings — published 1949
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,303 ratings — published 1946
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,546 ratings — published 1961
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,092 ratings — published 2007
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,684 ratings — published 1995
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,338 ratings — published 1988
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 187 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,501 ratings — published 1986
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,715 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 181 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,516 ratings — published 1985
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,205 ratings — published 1998
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,632 ratings — published 2013
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,176 ratings — published 1937
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,899 ratings — published 2020
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 174 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,180 ratings — published 1992
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,156 ratings — published 2009
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,250 ratings — published 2018
“All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.”
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“When asked why he wrote the book, Freed said:
In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums—
where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked.”
― Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City - Volume I: The Putnam-Boas Era
In the 1980s, I joined the small group of anthropologists who were writing about the history of their subject. I believed that I could add some balance to American anthropological history, and that the best place to start was with museums—
where the story began. The more I delved into the archives, the more I was fascinated. I was hooked.”
― Anthropology Unmasked: Museums, Science, and Politics in New York City - Volume I: The Putnam-Boas Era
