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 Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Science
Evolution
Forbidden Archeology
The Hidden History of the Human Race
History
Science
Archaeology
The Language Puzzle
Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
History
Linguistics
Language
The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
Spirituality
Africa
Religion
A History of India, Vol. 1
From Origins to 1300
History
India
Indian Literature
Wired for Culture
Origins of the Human Social Mind
Psychology
Science
Sociology
The 10000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Science
History
Evolution
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
Science
History
Anthropology
Chief Culture Officer
How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation
Business
Anthropology
Sociology
Minds Make Societies
How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
Psychology
Science
Anthropology
Low Anthropology
The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others
Christian
Psychology
Theology
The Human Swarm
How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
Science
History
Sociology
Cities
The First 6,000 Years
History
Archaeology
Cities
The Songlines
Travel
Australia
History
The Myth of Race
The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
History
Race
Science
America Before
The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization
History
Science
Anthropology
Culture
The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
History
Art
Sociology
The Unfolding of Language
An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Linguistics
Language
History
The Case of the Female Orgasm
Bias in the Science of Evolution
Science
Sexuality
Feminism
Who We Are and How We Got Here
Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Science
History
Anthropology
Economies and Cultures
Foundations of Economic Anthropology
Anthropology
Economics
Social Science
The Human Past
World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies
History
Archaeology
Anthropology
The Hand
How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture
Science
Design
Psychology
A Short History of Myth
History
Mythology
Philosophy
Homo Sacer
Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
On Human Nature
Philosophy
Psychology
Politics
Aging Thoughtfully
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
Philosophy
Essays
Sociology
Sociobiology
The New Synthesis
Science
Biology
Sociology
Why Nothing Works
The Anthropology of Daily Life
Anthropology
Sociology
History
How the Mind Changed
A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
Science
Neuroscience
Psychology
Coding Freedom
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking
Technology
Anthropology
Programming
Human Devolution
A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory
History
Biology
Science
The Democracy Project
A History, a Crisis, a Movement
Politics
History
Anthropology
The Journey of Humanity
The Origins of Wealth and Inequality
History
Economics
Anthropology
The Myths and Gods of India
The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
Religion
India
Hinduism
Collapse
How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
History
Science
Anthropology
The Passing of the Great Race or the Racial Basis of European History
History
Race
Politics
How Forests Think
Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
Anthropology
Philosophy
Nature
Political Ecology
A Critical Introduction
Environment
Politics
Anthropology
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
History
Anthropology
Politics
Our Kind
Who We Are, Where We Came From, Where We Are Going
Anthropology
Science
History
Mama Lola
A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
Religion
Anthropology
Biography
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
The Bone Woman
A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo
Anthropology
History
Africa
Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America
History
American History
American
The Arabs in History
History
Islam
Religion
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Science
History
Evolution
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 BC.
Myths and Cult Images
History
Mythology
Anthropology
When God Talks Back
Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God
Religion
Anthropology
Psychology
