16 Best Anthropology Books
Goal: Find the best Anthropology books according to the internet (not just one person's opinion).
Method:
- Search for "best anthropology books" and study the top 5+ pages.
- Add only the books mentioned 2+ times.
- Rank the results neatly here.
16 Best Anthropology Books
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Anthropology
Appreciating Human Diversity
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
Cultural Anthropology
Asking Questions About Humanity
by Robert L. Welsch
Purity and Danger
An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
by Mary Douglas
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
Also recommended by:
Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Naval Ravikant, Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Attia, Ashton Kutcher, Whitney Cummings, Richard Branson, Ray Dalio, Vinod Khosla, James Cameron, Demis Hassabis, Keith Rabois, Daniel Ek, Sebastian Junger, Sam Kass, Reid Hoffman, James Clear, Penn Jillette, Simon Mayo, Mark Manson, Chris Evans, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Changpeng Zhao, Anthony Pompliano, Melinda Gates, PewDiePie, Ryan Shea, Kishore Biyani, Karlie Kloss, Bill Gurley
Guns, Germs, and Steel
The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
Also recommended by:
Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Charlie Munger, Simon Sinek, Daniel Ek, Jesse Williams, Stewart Brand, Jamie Dimon, Mark Manson, Patrick Arnold, Margaret Atwood, James Clear
Almost Human
The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
by Lee Berger
Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter
by Talal Asad
Beyond Culture
by Edward T. Hall
Crazy Like Us
The Globalization of the American Psyche
by Ethan Watters
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
Gods of the Upper Air
How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
by Charles King
How to Read Ethnography
by Paloma Gay y Blasco
Imagined Communities
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson
Language, Culture, and Society
An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
by James Stanlaw
The Unfolding of Language
An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
by Guy Deutscher
Sources
- 1
Top 10 Anthropology Books of 2020 | Video Review
wiki.ezvid.com
- 2
Best Anthropology Books
pennbookcenter.com
- 3
Learning Anthropology: The Top Ten Books | Superprof
superprof.co.uk
- 4
10 Best Anthropology Books for Beginners
sociologygroup.com
- 5
The 30 Essential Books in Anthropology - Allegra Lab
allegralaboratory.net
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