Bowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
2000 · 2020 edition
544 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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Factory Girls From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang
Published 2008
431 pages
The Emperor
Colin Teevan, Ryszard Kapuściński
1983 · 2006 edition
192 pages
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor
1995 · 2011 edition
707 pages
Backlash
Susan Faludi
1991 · 1992 edition
592 pages
No Friend But the Mountains Writing from Manus Prison
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
2012 · 2013 edition
499 pages
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Thomas L. Friedman
1999 · 2000 edition
490 pages
The Strange Death of Europe Immigration, Identity, Islam
Douglas Murray
Published 2017
343 pages
Sea People
Christina Thompson
2019 · 2022 edition
384 pages
My Grandmother's Hands Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
2017 · 2021 edition
352 pages
Waking Up White
Deborah Kittredge Irving
Published 2014
291 pages
"You Just Need to Lose Weight" And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
Aubrey Gordon
Published 2023
224 pages
Watching the English The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Kate Fox
2004 · 2005 edition
424 pages
What Should I Do With My Life
Po Bronson
Published 2002
400 pages
The Seven Daughters of Eve
Bryan Sykes
Published 2001
318 pages
Respectable Sins
Jerry Bridges
Published 2001
185 pages
Eat the Buddha Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Barbara Demick
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson
1990 · 2012 edition
460 pages
Four Lost Cities
Annalee Newitz, Chloe Cannon
Published 2021
320 pages