Popular Anthropology Books

The Will to Change

bell hooks

Social Science
War before Civilization

Lawrence H. Keeley

Anthropology
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Seth M. Holmes

Anthropology
Ordinary Men

Christopher R. Browning

Social Science
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

Aubrey Gordon

Anthropology
The Grid

Gretchen Bakke

Anthropology
One River

Wade Davis

Anthropology
In Praise of Slowness

Carl Honoré

Social Science
I'll Fly Away

Wally Lamb & I'll Fly Away Contributors

Social Science
In Pain

Travis Rieder

Social Science
Animal, Vegetable, Junk

Mark Bittman

Social Science
Selfie

Will Storr

Anthropology
The Mayans Among Us

Ann L. Sittig

Anthropology
Gringo Love

Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan

Anthropology
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

Michael T. Taussig

Anthropology
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Anne Fadiman

Anthropology
Sapiens. De animales a dioses

Yuval Noah Harari

Anthropology
Generations

Jean M. Twenge

Social Science
The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

Social Science
B******t Jobs

David Graeber

Anthropology
The Seven Daughters of Eve

Bryan Sykes

Anthropology
Kindred

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Anthropology
End Times

Peter Turchin

Anthropology
The Rage of a Privileged Class

Ellis Cose

Social Science
A Man Without Words

Susan Schaller

Anthropology
The Dawn of Human Culture

Richard G. Klein

Anthropology
Anthropology: The Basics

Peter Metcalf

Anthropology
La Seduction

Elaine Sciolino

Anthropology
Significant Emotions

Ashley Frawley

Anthropology
Mainstream

Frédéric Martel

Social Science
The Dawn of Everything

David Graeber & David Wengrow

Anthropology
Custodians of Wonder

Eliot Stein

Anthropology
Generación idiota

Agustin Laje

Anthropology
A Degree in a Book: Anthropology

Julia Morris

Social Science
Introduction to Deaf Culture

Thomas K. Holcomb

Social Science
Robo sapiens japanicus

Jennifer Robertson

Anthropology
Something for Nothing

Jackson Lears

Anthropology
It Can Happen Here

Alexander Laban Hinton

Anthropology
The Gay Archipelago

Tom Boellstorff

Social Science
Azmapu

Elisa Loncon

Anthropology
Shifting

Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter-gooden

Social Science
The World Until Yesterday

Jared Diamond

Anthropology
How Soccer Explains the World

Franklin Foer

Social Science
Factory Girls

Leslie T. Chang

Anthropology
The Serpent and the Rainbow

Wade Davis

Anthropology
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

Jean Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow

Anthropology
Bright-sided

Barbara Ehrenreich

Anthropology
Why the Dutch are Different

Ben Coates

Anthropology
Civilized to Death

Christopher Ryan

Anthropology
Dish

Jeannette Walls

Social Science
My Freshman Year

Rebekah Nathan

Anthropology
The Wayfinders

Wade Davis PhD

Anthropology
The Land of Open Graves

Jason De León

Anthropology
Working

Studs Terkel

Anthropology
The Chalice and the Blade

Riane Eisler

Social Science
Watching the English

Kate Fox

Anthropology
Gods of the Upper Air

Charles King

Anthropology
The Mushroom at the End of the World

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anthropology
The Boys in the Bunkhouse

Dan Barry

Social Science
Dude, You're a F*g

C. J. Pascoe

Social Science
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches

Marvin Harris

Anthropology
Goliath's Curse

Luke Kemp

Anthropology
$2.00 A Day

Kathryn J. Edin & H. Luke Shaefer

Social Science
Unbound

Richard L Currier & Tom Gjelten

Anthropology
Very Recent History

Choire Sicha

Social Science
Social and Cultural Anthropology

John Monaghan & Peter Just

Anthropology
The Wedge

Scott Carney

Anthropology
Righteous Dopefiend

Philippe Bourgois & Jeffrey Schonberg

Anthropology
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts

Bryan Sykes

Anthropology
100 Things Successful People Do

Nigel Cumberland

Anthropology
Learning to Bow

Bruce Feiler

Anthropology
Misbelief

Dan Ariely

Social Science
All the Living and the Dead

Hayley Campbell

Social Science
Japanese Mind

Roger J. Davies & Osamu Ikeno

Social Science
Our Inner Ape

Frans de Waal

Anthropology
Our Babies, Ourselves

Meredith Small

Anthropology
The Myth of Race

Robert Wald Sussman

Social Science
Them and Us: How Neanderthal predation created modern humans

Danny Vendramini

Anthropology
Sand Talk

Tyson Yunkaporta

Anthropology
"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

Aubrey Gordon

Anthropology
Street of Eternal Happiness

Rob Schmitz

Anthropology
Sexual Citizens

Jennifer S. Hirsch & Shamus Khan

Social Science
Beyond Civilization

Daniel Quinn

Anthropology
Noble Savages

Napoleon A. Chagnon

Anthropology
The Voyeur's Motel

Gay Talese

Social Science
The Corpse Walker

Liao Yiwu

Anthropology
How to Think Like an Anthropologist

Matthew Engelke

Anthropology
Coming of Age in Samoa

Margaret Mead

Anthropology
Growing Up Black

Jay David

Social Science
The Last Whalers

Doug Bock Clark

Anthropology
Composing a Further Life

Mary Catherine Bateson

Anthropology
The New Mind of the South

Tracy Thompson

Anthropology
Why Religion Matters

Huston Smith

Social Science
Jackpot

Michael Mechanic

Anthropology
Secrets of the Sprakkar

Eliza Reid

Anthropology
Bread, Wine, Chocolate

Simran Sethi

Social Science
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Erving Goffman

Anthropology
Military Brats

Mary Edwards Wertsch

Anthropology
The Pastoral Clinic

Angela Garcia

Anthropology
Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

Anthropology

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Social Science

Lawrence H. Keeley

Anthropology

Seth M. Holmes

Anthropology

Christopher R. Browning

Social Science

Aubrey Gordon

Anthropology

Gretchen Bakke

Anthropology

Wade Davis

Anthropology

Carl Honoré

Social Science

Wally Lamb & I'll Fly Away Contributors

Social Science

Travis Rieder

Social Science

Mark Bittman

Social Science

Will Storr

Anthropology

Ann L. Sittig

Anthropology

Marie-Eve Carrier-Moisan

Anthropology

Michael T. Taussig

Anthropology

Anne Fadiman

Anthropology

Yuval Noah Harari

Anthropology

Jean M. Twenge

Social Science

Naomi Wolf

Social Science

David Graeber

Anthropology

Bryan Sykes

Anthropology

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Anthropology

Peter Turchin

Anthropology

Ellis Cose

Social Science

Susan Schaller

Anthropology

Richard G. Klein

Anthropology

Peter Metcalf

Anthropology

Elaine Sciolino

Anthropology

Ashley Frawley

Anthropology

Frédéric Martel

Social Science

David Graeber & David Wengrow

Anthropology

Eliot Stein

Anthropology

Agustin Laje

Anthropology

Julia Morris

Social Science

Thomas K. Holcomb

Social Science

Jennifer Robertson

Anthropology

Jackson Lears

Anthropology

Alexander Laban Hinton

Anthropology

Tom Boellstorff

Social Science

Elisa Loncon