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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 1709 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,215,611 ratings — published 2011
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1445 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.04 — 447,778 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 656 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 24,772 ratings — published 2021
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Hardcover)
by (shelved 599 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 25,951 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 578 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 74,077 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 533 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,065 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 — 3,768 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 — 28,397 ratings — published 1991
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 384 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,011 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 — 87,934 ratings — published 1997
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.05 — 93,629 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 — 3,161 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 — 10,928 ratings — published 2012
The Golden Bough (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,641 ratings — published 1890
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.97 — 31,419 ratings — published 2010
Structural Anthropology (Paperback)
by (shelved 267 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,675 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 — 7,730 ratings — published 2015
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 263 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.02 — 32,541 ratings — published 2018
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
by (shelved 252 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,333 ratings — published 2004
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,983 ratings — published 1983
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,984 ratings — published 1974
Euphoria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 98,481 ratings — published 2014
The Savage Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,747 ratings — published 1962
Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 230 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,730 ratings — published 1977
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,779 ratings — published 1978
Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,429 ratings — published 1922
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,511 ratings — published 1978
Europe and the People Without History (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,277 ratings — published 1982
The Naked Ape (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.93 — 11,951 ratings — published 1967
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,954 ratings — published 2008
Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,081 ratings — published 1946
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,376 ratings — published 1949
The Forest People (Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,485 ratings — published 1961
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 201 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,645 ratings — published 2017
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
by (shelved 190 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,579 ratings — published 1995
The Power of Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.26 — 53,266 ratings — published 1988
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,819 ratings — published 2007
Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,150 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 — 1,450 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 3.93 — 5,315 ratings — published 1985
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 166 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,528 ratings — published 2020
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as anthropology)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,562 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 — 6,184 ratings — published 2013
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,059 ratings — published 2009
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as anthropology)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,158 ratings — published 2004
“L'anthropologie n'est ni une religion à laquelle on adhère, ni une maladie qu'on contracte. Elle est d'un même mouvement un retour sur Soi et sur l'Autre considérés ensemble, mais l'habitude d'une relation à sens unique depuis cinq siècles n'autorise pas l'inversion de cette relation a produire les mêmes effets.”
― Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie
― Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of that person's existence. Just as the human body returned to dust, mingling with atoms of the natural world, a person's existence would return to nothingness.
How very clean.
Now, as if in belated punishment for the invention of writing, any message once posted on the Internet was immortal. Words as numerous as the dust of the earth would linger forever in their millions and trillions and quadrillions and beyond.”
― Inheritance from Mother
How very clean.
Now, as if in belated punishment for the invention of writing, any message once posted on the Internet was immortal. Words as numerous as the dust of the earth would linger forever in their millions and trillions and quadrillions and beyond.”
― Inheritance from Mother
