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Suggested Anthropology Texts - Page 3

Fancy learning more about our world? Keen on reading about the study of us - human beings, and our diverse peoples and societies - past and present? These books represent a sample of essential anthropology texts. Hope they pique your interest.
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The Gift (Marcel Mauss)
The Gift
Marcel Mauss
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An Anthropology of Biomedicine (Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen)
An Anthropology of Biomedicine
Margaret Lock, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
83
Coming of Age in Samoa (Samoa) (Margaret Mead)
Coming of Age in Samoa (Samoa)
Margaret Mead
84
The Gender of the Gift: Problems With Women and Problems With Society in Melanesia (Marilyn Strathern)
The Gender of the Gift: Problems With Women and Problems With Society in Melanesia
Marilyn Strathern
85
Women in Between: Female Roles in a Male World (Marilyn Strathern)
Women in Between: Female Roles in a Male World
Marilyn Strathern
86
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman (Marjorie Shostak)
Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Marjorie Shostak
87
Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History (Mark Moberg)
Engaging Anthropological Theory: A Social and Political History
Mark Moberg
88
The Thread-Spirit: The Symbolism of Knotting and the Fiber Arts (Mark Siegeltuch)
The Thread-Spirit: The Symbolism of Knotting and the Fiber Arts
Mark Siegeltuch
89
Stone Age Economics (Marshall Sahlins)
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins
90
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (Marvin Harris)
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
Marvin Harris
91
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Mary Douglas)
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
Mary Douglas
92
The Judicial Process Among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) (Max Gluckman)
The Judicial Process Among the Barotse of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
Max Gluckman
93
How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy (Maurice Bloch)
How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches to Cognition, Memory, and Literacy
Maurice Bloch
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Museums, the Public and Anthropology: A Study in the Anthropology of Anthropology (Michael M Ames)
Museums, the Public and Anthropology: A Study in the Anthropology of Anthropology
Michael M Ames
95
Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault
96
Women, Culture and Society (Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo & Louise Lamphere (Eds))
Women, Culture and Society
Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo & Louise Lamphere (Eds)
97
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians (Edward Morris Opler)
Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians
Edward Morris Opler
98
Male Cults and Secret Initiations in Melanesia (MR Allen)
Male Cults and Secret Initiations in Melanesia
MR Allen
99
The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society (Nancy Munn)
The Fame of Gawa: A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society
Nancy Munn
100
Death Without Weeping. the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Nancy Scheper-Hughes)
Death Without Weeping. the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
101
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific (Nicholas Thomas)
Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific
Nicholas Thomas
102
Islanders (Nicholas Thomas)
Islanders
Nicholas Thomas
103
The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living (Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk)
The Environment in Anthropology: A Reader in Ecology, Culture, and Sustainable Living
Nora Haenn, Allison Harnish, Richard Wilk
104
Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies (Second Edition) (Patricia K. Townsend)
Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies (Second Edition)
Patricia K. Townsend
105
The Island of the Colorblind (Federated States of Micronesia)
The Island of the Colorblind (Federated States of Micronesia)
106
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (Paul Gilroy)
There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Paul Gilroy
107
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey (Peter Manuel)
Popular Musics of the Non-Western World: An Introductory Survey
Peter Manuel
108
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual (Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington)
Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual
Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington
109
Selected Subaltern Studies (Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Spivak)
Selected Subaltern Studies
Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Spivak
110
Looseleaf for Physical Anthropology (Philip L Stein, Bruce M Rowe)
Looseleaf for Physical Anthropology
Philip L Stein, Bruce M Rowe
111
We, the Tikopia (Raymond Firth)
We, the Tikopia
Raymond Firth
112
The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft (Rebecca Stein, Philip Stein)
The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
Rebecca Stein, Philip Stein
113
Ilongot Headhunting 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History (Renato Rosaldo)
Ilongot Headhunting 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History
Renato Rosaldo
114
La Violence Et Le Sacré (Rene Girard)
La Violence Et Le Sacré
Rene Girard
115
Introducing Urban Anthropology (Rivke Jaffe, Anouk De Koning)
Introducing Urban Anthropology
Rivke Jaffe, Anouk De Koning
116
Core Concepts of Cultural Anthropology (Robert H. Lavenda)
Core Concepts of Cultural Anthropology
Robert H. Lavenda
117
The Anthropology of Art (Robert Layton)
The Anthropology of Art
Robert Layton
118
The Invention of Culture (Roy Wagner)
The Invention of Culture
Roy Wagner
119
Maori Death Customs (RS Oppenheim)
Maori Death Customs
RS Oppenheim
120
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (Ruth Benedict)
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict
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