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I am a recent anthropology graduate and I think that this list is superb.

Lucinda wrote: "I am a recent anthropology graduate and I think that this list is superb."

I'm glad you appreciate it. I haven't checked /shelf/show/anthropology in awhile. Hopefully there are additional books that could be added to this list as well.

I increased the minimum number of shelves of anthropology from 10 to 30. And also removed the restriction on being nonfiction. This will limit the possible books to 440 as of 2024-05-21. Currently this list has 302 books. And I was able to add 60 books. So as of 2024-05-22 it is 362.

✅ Books that should be ADDED (Meet criteria on shelf): Structural Anthropology (Paperback) and Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface) and Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback) and Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover) and How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback) and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover) and Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (Paperback) and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover) and The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut (Paperback) and Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback) and A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea (Hardcover) and Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Hardcover) and Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Paperback) and Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life (Hardcover) and The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins (Kindle Edition) and Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains (Hardcover) and The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution (Hardcover) and Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover) and Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover) and First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (ebook) and Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback) and Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback) and Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover) and Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5) and Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover) and Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback) and The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement (Hardcover) and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback) and Culture and Imperialism (Paperback) and Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins (Hardcover) and Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist (Hardcover) and Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (Hardcover) and The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback) and The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business (Kindle Edition) and Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback) and The Scapegoat (Paperback) and I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Paperback) and Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World) and The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection (Hardcover) and Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)

❌ Books that should be REMOVED (Not found in top 25 shelf pages or below threshold): Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization and Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto and People of the Deer and The Eagle's Gift and The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy as They Do and The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures and The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality and The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and The Second Ring of Power and Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species and The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge and Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution and Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England and My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student and Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals and Masculine Domination and The Trouble with Testosterone and Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament and Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body and The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change and A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster and The Last Days of the Incas and The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 and The Island of the Colorblind and The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War and Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions and The Meme Machine and The Division of Labor in Society and Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets and Subculture: The Meaning of Style and Plagues and Peoples and Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human and Geisha and The Culture of Make Believe and Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees and Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Mali and The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology and Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes and Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble and A Brief History of Neoliberalism and Metaphors We Live By and American Indian Myths and Legends and Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity and The Immense Journey and Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World and God: A Human History and The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human and Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and The History of White People and Tales of Power and In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language and Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny and The Foucault Reader and Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science and Class: A Guide Through the American Status System and The Creation of Patriarchy and The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property and Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved and War! What Is It Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots and Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind and Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes and The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist and Course in General Linguistics and Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us and The Marsh Arabs and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island and Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life and In an Antique Land and Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East and Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous