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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,311,144 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,995 ratings — published 1997
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 3,906 ratings — published 1973
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,618 ratings — published 2015
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,642 ratings — published 1997
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,925 ratings — published 1923
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 28,222 ratings — published 2021
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,288 ratings — published 1955
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 28,064 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,460 ratings — published 2004
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 23 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,607 ratings — published 2004
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,263 ratings — published 1928
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,506 ratings — published 1966
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,077 ratings — published 2013
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,475 ratings — published 1922
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,342 ratings — published 1974
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,113 ratings — published 2017
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,626 ratings — published 1978
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,504 ratings — published 1986
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,668 ratings — published 1934
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,072 ratings — published 1940
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,881 ratings — published 1983
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
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avg rating 4.22 — 1,184 ratings — published 1992
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,418 ratings — published 2015
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,878 ratings — published 1985
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 32,095 ratings — published 2010
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,701 ratings — published 1995
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,791 ratings — published 1977
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,290 ratings — published 1998
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,803 ratings — published 2008
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,012 ratings — published 1978
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 97,542 ratings — published 2005
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,717 ratings — published 1958
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.14 — 933 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 108,247 ratings — published 2014
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 602 ratings — published 2005
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 310 ratings — published 1987
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 763 ratings — published 1986
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 36,442 ratings — published 2018
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,476 ratings — published 2019
The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession along the Rio Grande (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 741 ratings — published 2010
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,581 ratings — published 2013
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 8,802 ratings — published 1890
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,813 ratings — published 1996
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 404 ratings — published 2008
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,301 ratings — published 1982
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,716 ratings — published 1981
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 190,234 ratings — published 2021
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 33,762 ratings — published 2017
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 6,698 ratings — published 2013
“As Zorch’s head lunges, Rex uses two hands and wraps them around his feathered neck. Spots of brown feathers fly as Zorch screeches in pain. Rex clutches the bird’s neck. For the first time in his life, Zorch begins to feel weak. He coughs loudly as the lizard slams the bird’s back into the ground with a resounding thud.
With his foot, Zorch slices Rex’s abdomen with his talon. The lizard yells and spits in pain as the sting worsens as the seconds go by. He feels warm blood drip from the wound. But his grip doesn’t falter. Zorch begins to turn a shade of blue as the lizard mounts his enemy. Rex’s muscles flex under the hot sunlight.
- Akena: A Sword and Planet Tale, Excerpt”
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With his foot, Zorch slices Rex’s abdomen with his talon. The lizard yells and spits in pain as the sting worsens as the seconds go by. He feels warm blood drip from the wound. But his grip doesn’t falter. Zorch begins to turn a shade of blue as the lizard mounts his enemy. Rex’s muscles flex under the hot sunlight.
- Akena: A Sword and Planet Tale, Excerpt”
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“We're not people," he said. "We're the stories that people tell each other about us. Belters are crazy terrorists. Earthers are lazy gluttons. Martians are cogs in a great big machine."
"Men are fighters," Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. "Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It's always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
"Men are fighters," Naomi said, and then, her voice growing bleak. "Women are nurturing and sweet and they stay home with the kids. It's always been like that. We always react to the stories about people, not who they really are.”
― Babylon’s Ashes
