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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 1,280,859 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,856 ratings — published 1997
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,882 ratings — published 1973
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 4.20 — 89,740 ratings — published 1997
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,317 ratings — published 2015
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,882 ratings — published 1923
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 27,003 ratings — published 2021
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,206 ratings — published 1955
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,018 ratings — published 2004
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.21 — 27,319 ratings — published 2011
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 23 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,513 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 — 3,233 ratings — published 1928
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,450 ratings — published 1966
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,950 ratings — published 2017
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 1,462 ratings — published 1922
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,045 ratings — published 2013
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,215 ratings — published 1974
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,495 ratings — published 1986
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,657 ratings — published 1934
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 2,569 ratings — published 1978
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,543 ratings — published 1983
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.55 — 2,341 ratings — published 2015
The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 1,066 ratings — published 1940
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,838 ratings — published 1985
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 31,837 ratings — published 2010
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,176 ratings — published 1992
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,659 ratings — published 1995
Righteous Dopefiend (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,777 ratings — published 2008
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 96,021 ratings — published 2005
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as anthro)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,706 ratings — published 1958
Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.14 — 900 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 103,987 ratings — published 2014
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 595 ratings — published 2005
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 305 ratings — published 1987
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,769 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 — 7,025 ratings — published 1998
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 4.26 — 2,437 ratings — published 2019
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 2,515 ratings — published 2013
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 8,743 ratings — published 1890
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,784 ratings — published 1996
Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 397 ratings — published 2008
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,153 ratings — published 1978
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,295 ratings — published 1982
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,705 ratings — published 1981
Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 758 ratings — published 1986
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 181,668 ratings — published 2021
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 35,098 ratings — published 2018
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 32,580 ratings — published 2017
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as anthro)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,511 ratings — published 2013
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
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avg rating 4.18 — 290,108 ratings — published 2015
“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
“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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