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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1711 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,217,272 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1447 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 448,140 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 660 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,816 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 599 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,983 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 579 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,090 ratings — published 2004
The Interpretation of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 541 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,832 ratings — published 1973
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 536 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,337 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 — 3,769 ratings — published 1923
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.08 — 28,407 ratings — published 1991
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,016 ratings — published 1955
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 379 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 87,975 ratings — published 1997
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 366 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,676 ratings — published 2005
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.55 — 3,164 ratings — published 1928
Patterns of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 319 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,629 ratings — published 1934
Purity and Danger (Routledge Classics)
by (shelved 313 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,382 ratings — published 1966
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.78 — 10,935 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,642 ratings — published 1890
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,426 ratings — published 2010
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,677 ratings — published 1958
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,743 ratings — published 2015
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,596 ratings — published 2018
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,998 ratings — published 1983
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 251 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,339 ratings — published 2004
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,986 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 98,560 ratings — published 2014
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 232 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,748 ratings — published 1962
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,733 ratings — published 1977
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 228 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,812 ratings — published 1978
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,512 ratings — published 1978
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,431 ratings — published 1922
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,955 ratings — published 1967
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,277 ratings — published 1982
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,959 ratings — published 2008
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,085 ratings — published 1946
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,393 ratings — published 1949
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 203 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,650 ratings — published 2017
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,486 ratings — published 1961
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,583 ratings — published 1995
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,280 ratings — published 1988
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,823 ratings — published 2007
The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,322 ratings — published 1985
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,152 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 — 1,451 ratings — published 1986
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,673 ratings — published 1981
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,148 ratings — published 1992
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,533 ratings — published 2020
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,569 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 — 6,187 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,061 ratings — published 2009
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,165 ratings — published 2004
“I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody.
They may be teaching that still.
Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’
I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
They may be teaching that still.
Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’
I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of the greatest technical power, is starvation an institution. Reverse another venerable formula: the amount of hunger increases relatively and absolutely with the evolution of culture.”
― Stone Age Economics
― Stone Age Economics
