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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1814 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,336,978 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1527 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,939 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 783 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,219 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 636 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,575 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 591 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,911 ratings — published 2004
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 570 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,922 ratings — published 1973
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 555 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.18 — 297,009 ratings — published 2015
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 488 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,981 ratings — published 1923
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 420 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,355 ratings — published 1955
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,111 ratings — published 1991
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,854 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 395 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 91,314 ratings — published 1997
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,283 ratings — published 1928
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 336 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,543 ratings — published 1966
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,675 ratings — published 1934
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 317 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,346 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,850 ratings — published 1890
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,360 ratings — published 2018
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 295 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,272 ratings — published 2010
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 292 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,844 ratings — published 2015
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,724 ratings — published 1958
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 273 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,674 ratings — published 2004
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,433 ratings — published 1974
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,103 ratings — published 1983
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,799 ratings — published 1962
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.87 — 111,649 ratings — published 2014
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 31,643 ratings — published 1978
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 244 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,651 ratings — published 1978
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,489 ratings — published 1922
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,821 ratings — published 1977
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 230 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,244 ratings — published 2017
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,520 ratings — published 2008
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.12 — 46,438 ratings — published 1949
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,308 ratings — published 1982
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 12,079 ratings — published 1967
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,395 ratings — published 1946
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,565 ratings — published 1961
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,217 ratings — published 2007
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,725 ratings — published 1995
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 192 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,513 ratings — published 1986
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 54,821 ratings — published 1988
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,084 ratings — published 2020
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,500 ratings — published 1998
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 — 5,593 ratings — published 1985
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,730 ratings — published 1981
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,188 ratings — published 1937
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,813 ratings — published 2013
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
by (shelved 179 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,190 ratings — published 1992
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,424 ratings — published 2018
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,204 ratings — published 2009
“L'anthropologie n'est ni une religion à laquelle on adhère, ni une maladie qu'on contracte. Elle est d'un même mouvement un retour sur Soi et sur l'Autre considérés ensemble, mais l'habitude d'une relation à sens unique depuis cinq siècles n'autorise pas l'inversion de cette relation a produire les mêmes effets.”
― Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie
― Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie
“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
