Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
1998 · 2020 edition
445 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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Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell
1972 · 1993 edition
276 pages
This Town
Mark Leibovich
Published 2013
386 pages
Funny Weather
Olivia Laing
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
Black Wave
Kim Ghattas
2020 · 2021 edition
377 pages
I, Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú
1983 · 2024 edition
320 pages
Alone Together
Sherry Turkle
2011 · 2017 edition
400 pages
Feminist Theory From Margin to Center
bell hooks
1984 · 2015 edition
179 pages
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich
Published 2018
368 pages
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Robert L. Moore, Douglas Gillette
Published 1991
192 pages
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
1976 · 1993 edition
491 pages
Bi The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
Julia Shaw
2022 · 2023 edition
264 pages
The Nordic Theory of Everything In Search of a Better Life
Anu Partanen
2016 · 2019 edition
432 pages
They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933–45
Milton Mayer
2013 · 2017 edition
378 pages
iGen Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Jean M. Twenge
2017 · 2018 edition
352 pages
Being Wrong Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz
Published 2010
405 pages
Working
Studs Terkel
1974 · 2004 edition
640 pages
Wabi-sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
Leonard Koren
1994 · 2008 edition
94 pages
The Descent of Man
Grayson Perry
Published 2016
160 pages
The Bonobo and the Atheist
Frans de Waal, Yasushi Shibata
Published 2013
289 pages
The Cosmic Serpent DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
Jeremy Narby
Published 1998
257 pages
Worthy
Jada Pinkett Smith
2023 · 2025 edition
416 pages
How the South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson
Published 2020
272 pages
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi
1975 · 1980 edition
315 pages