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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as ethnology)
avg rating 4.04 — 473,661 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 — 3,968 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 — 3,920 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 — 1,183 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 — 3,280 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 — 10,176 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)
by (shelved 2 times as ethnology)
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)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
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)
by (shelved 1 time as ethnology)
avg rating 3.74 — 62 ratings — published 2002
“...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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“For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.”
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