Totem and Taboo
Sigmund Freud, A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill
1989 · 2009 edition
280 pages
The most popular anthropology books
Anthropology is the study of human beings in all their variety. Customs, kinship, belief, language and our evolutionary origins are explored through fieldwork among peoples around the world. These books show how many ways there are to be human, and make your own culture look a little stranger.
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Four Hundred Souls
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain
2021 · 2022 edition
432 pages
The Everlasting Man
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
1993 · 2021 edition
200 pages
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam
1972 · 1989 edition
688 pages
The Antidote
Oliver Burkeman
2012 · 2018 edition
256 pages
Status Anxiety
Alain de Botton
2004 · 2005 edition
320 pages
Bright-sided How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich
Published 2009
235 pages
Consider the Fork A History of how We Cook and Eat
Bee Wilson
2012 · 2013 edition
416 pages
Civilization The West and the Rest
Niall Ferguson
2011 · 2018 edition
432 pages
The Seven Ages of Death
Richard Shepherd
2021 · 2023 edition
416 pages
In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall
1974 · 2009 edition
302 pages
Bowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
2000 · 2020 edition
544 pages
Factory Girls From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang
Published 2008
431 pages
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuściński
1983 · 2006 edition
192 pages
Backlash
Susan Faludi
1991 · 1992 edition
592 pages
No Friend But the Mountains Writing from Manus Prison
Omid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani
2018 · 2019 edition
398 pages
Why People Believe Weird Things
Michael Shermer
1997 · 2002 edition
384 pages
Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
Published 2014
416 pages
The Argumentative Indian Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
Amartya Sen
2005 · 2012 edition
409 pages
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Published 2015
352 pages
The World Until Yesterday What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Jared Diamond, EBSCOhost
2012 · 2013 edition
499 pages
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Frederick Engels, Ernest Untermann
1972 · 2020 edition
170 pages
The Strange Death of Europe Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray
Published 2017
343 pages
Sea People
Christina Thompson
2019 · 2022 edition
384 pages