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  • Robert Darnton The best books in anthropology for lovers of history Book cover of The Interpretation of Cultures Book cover of Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo Book cover of Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande Book cover of The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual Book cover of Islands of History
  • Gillian Gillison The best books on the anthropology of myth and ritual Book cover of Magic, Science and Religion: and Other Essays Book cover of The Rites of Passage Book cover of Death & The Right Hand Book cover of Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual Book cover of The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual
  • Daromir Rudnyckyj The best books for illustrating how anthropology helps us understand the economy Book cover of Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks Book cover of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality Book cover of Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution Book cover of Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China Book cover of Money: The Unauthorized Biography
  • Meredith F. Small The best books on the anthropology of parenting Book cover of The Afterlife Is Where We Come from: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa Book cover of Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don't Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax Book cover of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures Book cover of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection Book cover of Childhood: A Multicultural View
  • Gillian Gillison The best books on symbolic and psychological anthropology for understanding women's myths and rites Book cover of Totem and Taboo Book cover of The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies Book cover of The Sexual Life of Savages in North Western Melanesia Book cover of Women and Analysis Book cover of Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience
  • Raluca Balasa The best science fiction books focusing on character and anthropology vs hard science Book cover of The Three-Body Problem Book cover of Ender's Game Book cover of The Martian Book cover of The Handmaid's Tale Book cover of The Left Hand of Darkness
  • Monica Black The best books for historians who wish they were anthropologists Book cover of Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Book cover of Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation Book cover of Reading the Holocaust Book cover of The Anti-Witch Book cover of Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
  • Christina Thompson The best books on Polynesian history Book cover of On the Road of the Winds: An Archaeological History of the Pacific Islands Before European Contact Book cover of We, the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific Book cover of Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a Silent Land Book cover of Two Worlds: First Meetings between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772 Book cover of Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific
  • Elizabeth Reed Aden Elizabeth Reed Aden's favorite books where curiosity sparks important insights Book cover of The Hot Zone Book cover of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Book cover of Letters from the Field 1925-1975 Book cover of Henrietta Schmerler and the Murder that Put Anthropology on Trial Book cover of “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
  • Corey Anton The best books for grasping how language and symbols relate to the human condition Book cover of Steps to an Ecology of Mind Book cover of The Birth and Death of Meaning Book cover of Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face-to-Face Behavior Book cover of Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art Book cover of The Rhetoric of Religion
  • Barbara H. Rosenwein The best books in the history of emotions Book cover of Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History Book cover of The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions Book cover of The History of Emotions: An Introduction Book cover of Emotional Arenas: Life, Love, and Death in 1870s Italy Book cover of Medieval Sensibilities: A History of Emotions in the Middle Ages
  • Jean Gilbert The best science fiction books that suck you into their world Book cover of Dragonflight Book cover of The Snow Queen Book cover of Leviathan Wakes Book cover of Dune Book cover of Ender's Game
  • Tanya Jakimow The best books on anthropology of development Book cover of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World Book cover of The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics Book cover of Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India Book cover of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India Book cover of Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos
  • Elesha Coffman The best books on Margaret Mead and her life Book cover of With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson Book cover of Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Book cover of The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy Book cover of Euphoria Book cover of To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
  • Susan D. Blum The best books that shake up conventional views of school Book cover of Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes Book cover of Deschooling Society Book cover of The Anthropology of Childhood Book cover of The Book of Learning and Forgetting Book cover of My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student
  • Allison Bloom The best books to learn about domestic violence from a cross-cultural perspective Book cover of I Am Not Your Victim: Anatomy of Domestic Violence Book cover of To Have and To Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating Book cover of Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence: Global Responses, Local Practices Book cover of Violence Against Latina Immigrants: Citizenship, Inequality, and Community Book cover of Traumatic States: Gendered Violence, Suffering and Care in Chile
  • Brian J. McVeigh The best books on bicameral mentality, consciousness, and Julian Jaynes Book cover of The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size Book cover of The Hypnotic Brain: Hypnotherapy and Social Communication Book cover of The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry Book cover of The Norton History of the Human Sciences Book cover of The Cognitive Revolution in Western Culture: Volume 1: The Birth of Expectation
  • Tim Hannigan The best books that capture the complexities of writing about the real world Book cover of The Vulnerable Observer Book cover of Stuart: A Life Backwards Book cover of Stealing with the Eyes Book cover of The Saddest Pleasure Book cover of For Love & Money
  • Peter Mark Adams The best books on ancient mystery cults Book cover of Mystery Cults of the Ancient World Book cover of Ancient Mystery Cults Book cover of The Mysteries: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Vol 2 Book cover of The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts Book cover of Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults
  • R.J. Vickers The best books where teens grapple with the blurred line between good and evil Book cover of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Book cover of The Penultimate Peril Book cover of The Hunger Games Book cover of Skyward Book cover of Ender's Game
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