Introduction To Anthropology Textbooks
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With compelling photos, engaging examples, and select studies by anthropologists in far-flung places, the authors of INTRODUCTION TO ANTHROPOLOGY provide a holistic view of anthropology to help you make sense of today's world. Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. Wolf vs miele induction cooktop.
Linguistics, Physical and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, and Cultural Anthropology - some of the stuff written for professionals is bit dense. What are the best books for a general audience?
| 1 | Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by 4.02 avg rating — 235,440 ratings | Rate this book |
| 2 | 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by 4.02 avg rating — 54,128 ratings | Rate this book |
| 3 | Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by 3.93 avg rating — 52,934 ratings | Rate this book |
| 4 | A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by 4.35 avg rating — 5,286 ratings | Rate this book |
| 5 | Kon-Tiki by 4.12 avg rating — 17,827 ratings | Rate this book |
| 6 | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by 4.16 avg rating — 59,802 ratings | Rate this book |
| 7 | Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by 3.92 avg rating — 3,213 ratings | Rate this book |
| 8 | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by 4.06 avg rating — 18,750 ratings | Rate this book |
| 9 | Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures by 4.05 avg rating — 1,101 ratings | Rate this book |
| 10 | The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal by 3.95 avg rating — 8,142 ratings | Rate this book |
| 11 | The Songlines by 3.98 avg rating — 8,235 ratings | Rate this book |
| 12 | One River by 4.43 avg rating — 1,592 ratings | Rate this book |
| 13 | The Forest People by 3.92 avg rating — 2,016 ratings | Rate this book |
| 14 | Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology by 4.23 avg rating — 1,689 ratings | Rate this book |
| 15 | The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by 3.72 avg rating — 7,927 ratings | Rate this book |
| 16 | The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by 4.13 avg rating — 19,658 ratings | Rate this book |
| 17 | Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by 4.45 avg rating — 1,700 ratings | Rate this book |
| 18 | The Yanomamö by 3.56 avg rating — 1,124 ratings | Rate this book |
| 19 | Europe and the People Without History by 4.13 avg rating — 1,025 ratings | Rate this book |
| 20 | A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by 3.94 avg rating — 7,512 ratings | Rate this book |
| 21 | Motel of the Mysteries by 4.13 avg rating — 1,482 ratings | Rate this book |
| 22 | The Golden Bough by 4.03 avg rating — 7,339 ratings | Rate this book |
| 23 | The Serpent and the Rainbow by 3.91 avg rating — 3,583 ratings | Rate this book |
| 23 | Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by 3.87 avg rating — 2,248 ratings | Rate this book |
| 25 | Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by 3.71 avg rating — 4,722 ratings | Rate this book |
| 26 | The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples by 3.94 avg rating — 70 ratings | Rate this book |
| 27 | The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen by 4.15 avg rating — 488 ratings | Rate this book |
| 28 | The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by 3.99 avg rating — 1,506 ratings | Rate this book |
| 29 | Neanderthals in Plato’s Cave: A Relativistic Approach to Cultural Evolution by it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings | Rate this book |
| 30 | In Search of the Dark Ages by 3.93 avg rating — 993 ratings | Rate this book |
| 31 | Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) by 3.99 avg rating — 73,374 ratings | Rate this book |
| 32 | Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of Modern Civilization by 3.90 avg rating — 329 ratings | Rate this book |
| 32 | Euphoria by 3.84 avg rating — 58,202 ratings | Rate this book |
| 34 | The Origin of Species by 3.99 avg rating — 85,608 ratings | Rate this book |
| 35 | The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by 3.94 avg rating — 34,189 ratings | Rate this book |
| 36 | The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific by 3.52 avg rating — 242 ratings | Rate this book |
| 36 | The Mound Builders by 3.69 avg rating — 87 ratings | Rate this book |
| 38 | Complete Pompeii by 4.13 avg rating — 210 ratings | Rate this book |
| 38 | Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi by 3.57 avg rating — 799 ratings | Rate this book |
| 40 | Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation by 3.54 avg rating — 2,439 ratings | Rate this book |
| 41 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by 4.45 avg rating — 246,971 ratings | Rate this book |
| 42 | Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God by 3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings | Rate this book |
| 43 | Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind by 4.02 avg rating — 382 ratings | Rate this book |
| 44 | Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology by 3.79 avg rating — 38 ratings | Rate this book |
| 44 | The Selfish Gene by 4.13 avg rating — 118,618 ratings | Rate this book |
| 46 | Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by 4.02 avg rating — 37,450 ratings | Rate this book |
| 47 | Archaeology: A Brief Introduction by 3.75 avg rating — 177 ratings | Rate this book |
| 48 | The Maya by 3.89 avg rating — 965 ratings | Rate this book |
| 49 | National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City by 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings | Rate this book |
| 50 | In Search of the Trojan War by 4.11 avg rating — 655 ratings | Rate this book |
| 51 | Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by 3.84 avg rating — 566 ratings | Rate this book |
| 52 | The Mountain People by 3.78 avg rating — 530 ratings | Rate this book |
| 53 | Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel by 3.67 avg rating — 541 ratings | Rate this book |
| 54 | Why Nothing Works: The Anthropology of Daily Life by 3.77 avg rating — 184 ratings | Rate this book |
| 55 | The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country by 4.23 avg rating — 226 ratings | Rate this book |
| 56 | Traurige Tropen by 4.14 avg rating — 2,414 ratings | Rate this book |
| 57 | Ancient Egyptian Magic by 3.87 avg rating — 112 ratings | Rate this book |
| 58 | Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature by 4.09 avg rating — 706 ratings | Rate this book |
| 59 | Ancient Mexico: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztects and Other Pre-Columbian Peoples by 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings | Rate this book |
| 59 | Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History by 4.05 avg rating — 148 ratings | Rate this book |
| 59 | Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by 3.68 avg rating — 7,064 ratings | Rate this book |
| 62 | Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations by 3.78 avg rating — 169 ratings | Rate this book |
| 63 | Hanta Yo: An American Saga by 4.32 avg rating — 819 ratings | Rate this book |
| 64 | The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by 3.94 avg rating — 2,541 ratings | Rate this book |
| 65 | The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by 4.31 avg rating — 18,267 ratings | Rate this book |
| 66 | The History of Ancient Egypt by 4.47 avg rating — 635 ratings | Rate this book |
| 66 | Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by 4.03 avg rating — 21,807 ratings | Rate this book |
| 68 | Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by 3.97 avg rating — 475 ratings | Rate this book |
| 69 | Pegando fogo: Por que cozinhar nos tornou humanos by 3.85 avg rating — 2,819 ratings | Rate this book |
| 70 | Gathering the Desert by 4.31 avg rating — 113 ratings | Rate this book |
| 70 | The Lost World of the Anasazi by 3.69 avg rating — 39 ratings | Rate this book |
| 70 | Merchant Adventurer Kings of Rhoda: The Lost World of the Tucson Artifacts by it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings | Rate this book |
| 73 | Ancient Ruins of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide by 4.04 avg rating — 91 ratings | Rate this book |
| 74 | Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest by 3.98 avg rating — 117 ratings | Rate this book |
| 75 | The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People by 4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings | Rate this book |
| 76 | On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks by 3.67 avg rating — 3,320 ratings | Rate this book |
| 77 | In the Shadow of Man by 4.34 avg rating — 5,821 ratings | Rate this book |
| 78 | In My Family Tree: A Life with Chimpanzees by 3.97 avg rating — 36 ratings | Rate this book |
| 79 | Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures by 3.80 avg rating — 81 ratings | Rate this book |
| 79 | Lucy: the beginnings of humankind by 4.12 avg rating — 2,465 ratings | Rate this book |
| 81 | The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis by 3.95 avg rating — 274 ratings | Rate this book |
| 82 | Geisha by really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,083 ratings | Rate this book |
| 83 | The Mummy: A Handbook of Egyptian Funerary Archaelogy by 3.98 avg rating — 149 ratings | Rate this book |
| 84 | Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by 3.79 avg rating — 1,029 ratings | Rate this book |
| 85 | Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs by 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings | Rate this book |
| 86 | A History of the Vikings by 3.89 avg rating — 891 ratings | Rate this book |
| 87 | The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings by 4.05 avg rating — 216 ratings | Rate this book |
| 88 | In Search Of The First Civilizations by 3.83 avg rating — 124 ratings | Rate this book |
| 89 | How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars who Razed the Old World and Formed the New by 3.56 avg rating — 108 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | How to Cook a Tapir: A Memoir of Belize by 3.76 avg rating — 51 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Peter Freuchen's Book of the Eskimos by 4.21 avg rating — 140 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name by 4.06 avg rating — 1,138 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Fieldwork by 3.61 avg rating — 3,699 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians by 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Mythbusting the Cult of Confucius: What the Chinese Really Are, How to Understand Them and Why We Need to by 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Guardians of the Transcendent by 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Howppiness: Happiness and How to Be Happier by 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | The Lost World of Ladakh: Photographic journeys through Indian Himalaya 1931-1934 (AHP:31) by 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Sex, Gender, and Kinship: A Cross-Cultural Perspective by 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings | Rate this book |
| 90 | Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language by 4.05 avg rating — 1,107 ratings | Rate this book |
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I remember having to read Cannibals and Kings for ANTHRO 105, which was the intro course I had to take as an undergrad. Pretty interesting class, and as I recall, the book was pretty good too. I may have to look up a couple of these others too.
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Fagan's books are highly readable, and Chaco Canyon is no exception.
I'm going to have to check out more of these lists! Every time I go to one I see more books I'd forgotten I'd read.
Wow is this list terrible. Outside of a few prominent anthros from the mid 19th century (Harris, Levi-Straus, Mead), and one decent scholar from a few decades ago (Wolf), this list is a mishmash of obscure ethnographers and popular non-anthro proponents of sociobiology. Not to mention Chagnon, who's work has been widely criticized within the field. Go ahead and read these, just don't think you're getting any kind of insight into contemporary anthropology.
message 7: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)
Perhaps you should add your own selections; this list, like most Listopias, is crowd sourced, and not handed down from on high.
John wrote: 'Wow is this list terrible. Outside of a few prominent anthros from the mid 19th century (Harris, Levi-Straus, Mead), and one decent scholar from a few decades ago (Wolf), this list is a mishmash of..'
Please do give some recommendations then? Even if they are 'dense'.
Please do give some recommendations then? Even if they are 'dense'.
message 9: by Elyse (last edited Jun 26, 2018 05:30PM) (new)
I see Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl is on this list. Heyerdahl's theories were debunked in a 2014 Smithsonian Magazine article. I will keep my fingers off the delete button because some readers may argue that the Smithsonian is mistaken. Plus this list-maker didn't specify that these books need to be accurate. :-)
message 10: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (new)
Well, I guess it's a classic of writing, though I agree it's outdated.
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