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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1736 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,264,503 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1475 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 458,303 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 700 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 26,400 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 615 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,947 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 580 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,724 ratings — published 2004
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 544 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.18 — 287,902 ratings — published 2015
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 542 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,876 ratings — published 1973
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 468 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,853 ratings — published 1923
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 400 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,149 ratings — published 1955
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 390 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 28,660 ratings — published 1991
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,256 ratings — published 1997
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 378 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,356 ratings — published 2005
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 349 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,212 ratings — published 1928
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 322 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,646 ratings — published 1934
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 312 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,422 ratings — published 1966
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,060 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,711 ratings — published 1890
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 293 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,696 ratings — published 2010
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 276 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,161 ratings — published 2015
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 34,342 ratings — published 2018
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 271 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,696 ratings — published 1958
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 261 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,471 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,395 ratings — published 1983
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,151 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.87 — 101,858 ratings — published 2014
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,768 ratings — published 1962
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,736 ratings — published 1978
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,454 ratings — published 1922
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,761 ratings — published 1977
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,551 ratings — published 1978
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,099 ratings — published 2008
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,289 ratings — published 1982
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,120 ratings — published 1967
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 45,098 ratings — published 1949
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,869 ratings — published 2017
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 210 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,173 ratings — published 1946
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,519 ratings — published 1961
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,969 ratings — published 2007
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,647 ratings — published 1995
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,816 ratings — published 1988
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 180 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,478 ratings — published 1986
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,437 ratings — published 1985
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,693 ratings — published 1981
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,175 ratings — published 1937
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,723 ratings — published 2020
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,169 ratings — published 1992
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,894 ratings — published 1998
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,421 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,106 ratings — published 2009
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,342 ratings — published 2004
“I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?”
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