Anthropology

How people actually live, written down by someone who went and looked. Fieldwork, kinship, ritual and the long argument about what can be known about a culture from outside it.

On the Ideas & Lives shelf.

Books shelved as Anthropology

• Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years — Jared Diamond
• Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York — Ross Perlin

Related genres

• Non-Fiction
• Biography
• Literary Criticism
• Medical Narrative
• Philosophy
• Grief Memoir
• Memoir
• Theology
• Cultural Studies
• Inspirational
• Political Theory
• Feminist Theory
• Art History
• Leadership
• Business

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