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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,629 ratings — published 1997
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,042 ratings — published 2003
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,967 ratings — published 1923
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,349 ratings — published 1955
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,921 ratings — published 1973
Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.71 — 514 ratings — published 1948
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,674 ratings — published 1934
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,560 ratings — published 1961
Varför etnologi? (Staple Bound)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 2.50 — 8 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,839 ratings — published 1890
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,182 ratings — published 1937
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,278 ratings — published 1928
Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.55 — 138 ratings — published 2013
The Ethnographic Interview (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.07 — 202 ratings — published 1979
Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.04 — 10,173 ratings — published 1985
The Forgotten Japanese: Encounters with Rural Life and Folklore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.22 — 50 ratings — published 2010
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.96 — 839 ratings — published 1969
Outline of a Theory of Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,717 ratings — published 1972
Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,319 ratings — published 2000
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,886 ratings — published 1983
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.11 — 9,526 ratings — published 1957
Healing Secrets of the Native Americans: Herbs, Remedies, and Practices That Restore the Body, Refresh the Mind, and Rebuild the Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.08 — 355 ratings — published 2004
A Grand Adventure: The Lives of Helge and Anne Stine Ingstad and Their Discovery of a Viking Settlement in North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.00 — 18 ratings — published
The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.18 — 34 ratings — published 2011
Slender Man Is Coming: Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.04 — 50 ratings — published
Folklore and Social Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
Ethno-herpetology of Sikkim (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.56 — 48 ratings — published 2005
Claude Lévi-Strauss: Uzaktan Bakan İnsan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2009
Ethnozoology: Animals in Our Lives (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2017
Ethnobiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published 2011
The Serpents Tongue (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Amphibians and Reptiles of the Yucatan Peninsula (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1996
Segwagwanyana: Ein Beitrag zur afrikanischen Ethnoherpetologie (German Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Handbook on Rajputs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 1986
In Humboldt's Shadow: A Tragic History of German Ethnology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
The Elementary Structures of Kinship (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.85 — 262 ratings — published 1947
Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.65 — 37 ratings — published 2006
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,383 ratings — published 1994
Contos Populares Portugueses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.35 — 127 ratings — published 1879
Conjure Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,919 ratings — published 1943
The Anthropology of Performance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.78 — 117 ratings — published 1993
Héros et Merveilles du Moyen-Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.72 — 265 ratings — published 2004
Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.17 — 140 ratings — published 2011
Notes On the Ethnology of Tibet: Based On the Collections in the U.S. National Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
Pergamentul diafan. Ultimele povestiri (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.17 — 111 ratings — published 1989
The Icelandic Folktales about Magician-Priests: Origins and Significance in the Culture (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Show Me the Magic: Travels Round Benin by Taxi (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 62 ratings — published 2002
“Relatively homogeneous societies invest more in public goods, indicating a higher level of public altruism. For example, the degree of ethnic homogeneity correlates with the government's share of gross domestic product as well as the average wealth of citizens. Case studies of the United States find that multi-ethnic societies are less charitable and less able to cooperate to develop public infrastructure. A recent multi-city study of municipal spending on public goods in the United States found that ethnically or racially diverse cities spend a smaller portion of their budgets and less per capita on public services than do the more homogeneous cities”
― On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
― On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration
“...Slavery finds its origins in war. But everywhere we encounter it slavery is also, at first, a domestic institution. Hierarch and property my derive from notion of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation have their origins in the intimate of social relations: as perversions of nurture, love and caring. Certainly, those origins are not to be found in government...”
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