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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1713 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,226,813 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1456 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 450,272 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 25,197 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 601 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,202 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 580 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,225 ratings — published 2004
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 543 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,842 ratings — published 1973
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 536 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 282,827 ratings — published 2015
The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 459 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,786 ratings — published 1923
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 388 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,032 ratings — published 1955
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 386 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,466 ratings — published 1991
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 381 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 88,230 ratings — published 1997
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 369 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,008 ratings — published 2005
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,171 ratings — published 1928
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,632 ratings — published 1934
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 313 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,391 ratings — published 1966
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 309 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,972 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,652 ratings — published 1890
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 288 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,483 ratings — published 2010
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 268 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,849 ratings — published 2015
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,680 ratings — published 1958
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 266 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 33,016 ratings — published 2018
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 254 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,377 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,086 ratings — published 1983
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,030 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 99,052 ratings — published 2014
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,749 ratings — published 1962
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,997 ratings — published 1978
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,739 ratings — published 1977
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,434 ratings — published 1922
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,518 ratings — published 1978
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,987 ratings — published 1967
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 219 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,278 ratings — published 1982
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,000 ratings — published 2008
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,104 ratings — published 1946
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 207 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,700 ratings — published 2017
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,530 ratings — published 1949
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,492 ratings — published 1961
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,601 ratings — published 1995
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,387 ratings — published 1988
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,859 ratings — published 2007
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,158 ratings — published 1937
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (updated with a new preface)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,458 ratings — published 1986
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,346 ratings — published 1985
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,679 ratings — published 1981
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,154 ratings — published 1992
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 170 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,583 ratings — published 2020
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,631 ratings — published 1998
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,246 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,075 ratings — published 2009
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,202 ratings — published 2004
“In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%, lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial" groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind as a single species.”
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“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
