Anthropology
Our shared human story unfolds through the lens of cultures, societies, and primal behaviors that shape who we are. Here you'll find compelling investigations into human nature, from our ancient origins and evolutionary past to the hidden codes that drive modern communities and marketplaces.
Anthropology Book Summaries
The Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Economics
History
Politics
Our Kind
Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
Anthropology
Science
History
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Science
History
Evolution
Low Anthropology
The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others
Christian
Psychology
Theology
Aging Thoughtfully
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
On Human Nature
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
The Case of the Female Orgasm
Bias in the Science of Evolution
Science
Sexuality
Feminism
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Science
History
Anthropology
Economies and Cultures
Foundations of Economic Anthropology
Anthropology
Economics
Social Science
Blueprint
The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Science
Psychology
History
The Mushroom at the End of the World
On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anthropology
Science
Nature
Human Devolution
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory
History
Biology
Science
Tupaia
Captain Cook's Polynesian Navigator
History
Biography
Travel
The Invisible History of the Human Race
How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures
Science
History
Genetics
The Human Swarm
How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Science
History
Sociology
The Myths and Gods of India
The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
Religion
India
Hinduism
The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
Philosophy
Sociology
Psychology
The Western Illusion of Human Nature
With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and ... Conceptions of the Human Condition
Anthropology
Philosophy
History
Orientalism
History
Philosophy
Politics
Mutant Message Down Under
Spirituality
Book Club
Travel
Warriors and Worriers
The Survival of the Sexes
Psychology
Science
Biology
The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City
History
Architecture
Anthropology
The Collapse of Complex Societies
History
Politics
Anthropology
Ultrasociety
How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
History
Anthropology
Sociology
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel
History
Religion
Archaeology
Fifth Sun
A New History of the Aztecs
History
Historical
World History
The Power of Not Thinking
How Our Bodies Learn and Why We Should Trust Them
Anthropology
Psychology
Hegemony How-To
A Roadmap for Radicals
Politics
Activism
Social Justice
Women's Work
The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
History
Feminism
Womens
The Origin of Language
How We Learned to Speak and Why
Science
Language
History
The Forest People
Anthropology
Africa
Ethnography
The Social Conquest of Earth
Science
History
Biology
