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Cultural anthropology
Cultural anthropology is one of four or five fields of anthropology (the holistic study of humanity). It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural anthropologists study cultural variation among humans, collect observations, usually through...
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The Gift
The Gift is a short book by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss and is best known for being one of the earliest and most important studies of reciprocity and gift exchange.
Mauss's original piece was entitled Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l...
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The Songlines
The Songlines is a 1986 book written by Bruce Chatwin, combining fiction and non-fiction. Chatwin describes a trip to Australia which he has taken for the express purpose of researching Aboriginal song and its connections to nomadic travel....
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- 1987
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The Real Eve
The Real Eve, known as Where We Came From in the United Kingdom, is a 2002 documentary based on the book Out of Eden, by geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer. The documentary was produced by the American cable TV network the Discovery Channel and was...
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Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals
The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific is a 2004 travelogue by author J. Maarten Troost describing the two years he and his girlfriend spent living on the Tarawa atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati. In the book...
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Black Skin, White Masks
Black Skin, White Masks is a 1952 book written by Frantz Fanon originally published in French as Peau noire, masques blancs.
In this study, Fanon uses psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical theory to explain the feelings of dependency and inadequacy...
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- 1952
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The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order is a book by Francis Fukuyama.
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- 1999
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Local Knowledge
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Works and Lives
Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author is a book by Clifford Geertz.
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- 1988
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 is a book by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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- 2003
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Whoever you are
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New lives for old
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Broken Earth
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Arctic mirrors
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Among Muslims
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The Racing Tribe
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Race and Culture
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Accounting for Tastes
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Beyond Self-Interest
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Culture
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World prehistory
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The Fijians
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Africa counts
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Nisa
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Unequal Protection
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Rationality
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Ordinary Prussians
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