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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

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....

x Author:: Bruce Chatwin

x Date of first publication:: 1987

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The Real Eve

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...

x Author:: Stephen Oppenheimer

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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...

x Author:: Sigmund Freud

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The Sex Lives of Cannibals

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...

x Author:: J. Maarten Troost

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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...

x Author:: Frantz Fanon

x Date of first publication:: 1952

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Culture and Customs of Afghanistan

x Author:: Hafizullah Emadi

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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

The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order is a book by Francis Fukuyama.

x Author:: Francis Fukuyama

x Date of first publication:: 1999

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Interpretation of Cultures

Interpretation of Cultures

x Author:: Clifford Geertz

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Local Knowledge

Local Knowledge

x Author:: Clifford Geertz

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Works and Lives

Works and Lives

Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author is a book by Clifford Geertz.

x Author:: Clifford Geertz

x Date of first publication:: 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

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 is a book by Nathaniel Philbrick.

x Author:: Nathaniel Philbrick

x Date of first publication:: 2003

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Whoever you are

Whoever you are

x Author:: Mem Fox

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The wild boy

The wild boy

x Author:: Mordicai Gerstein,; Warren Rochelle

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New lives for old

New lives for old

x Author:: Margaret Mead

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Growing Up in New Guinea

Growing Up in New Guinea

x Author:: Margaret Mead

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Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples

Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples

x Author:: Margaret Mead

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The mountain Arapesh

The mountain Arapesh

x Author:: Margaret Mead

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Ethnic cultures of the world

Ethnic cultures of the world

x Author:: Philip M. Parker

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The power of identity

The power of identity

x Author:: Manuel Castells

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Broken Earth

Broken Earth

x Author:: Steven W. Mosher

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Arctic mirrors

Arctic mirrors

x Author:: Yuri Slezkine

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The Cold-and-Hunger Dance

The Cold-and-Hunger Dance

x Author:: Diane Glancy

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Eden in the East

Eden in the East

x Author:: Stephen Oppenheimer

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Culture and Customs of Somalia

Culture and Customs of Somalia

x Author:: Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi

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The time falling bodies take to light

The time falling bodies take to light

x Author:: William Irwin Thompson

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Negative ethnicity

Negative ethnicity

x Author:: Koigi wa Wamwere

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Blood, Bread, and Roses

Blood, Bread, and Roses

x Author:: Judy Grahn

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Among Muslims

Among Muslims

x Author:: Kathleen Jamie

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Gift Imagination and the Erotic Life of Pr

Gift Imagination and the Erotic Life of Pr

x Author:: Lewis Hyde

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The Racing Tribe

The Racing Tribe

x Author:: Kate Fox

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Home in the Islands

Home in the Islands

x Author:: Margaret Rodman

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Race and Culture

Race and Culture

x Author:: Thomas Sowell

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Anthropology, development, and the post-modern challenge

Anthropology, development, and the post-modern challenge

x Author:: Katy Gardner

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Achieving social justice

Achieving social justice

x Author:: Larissa Behrendt

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Accounting for Tastes

Accounting for Tastes

x Author:: John Frow

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Beyond Self-Interest

Beyond Self-Interest

x Author:: Kim Paffenroth

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Western Civilization

Western Civilization

x Author:: David X. Cohen

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Glass, paper, beans

Glass, paper, beans

x Author:: Leah Hager Cohen

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The invention of primitive society

The invention of primitive society

x Author:: Adam Kuper

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The reinvention of primitive society

The reinvention of primitive society

x Author:: Adam Kuper

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Anthropology and anthropologists

Anthropology and anthropologists

x Author:: Adam Kuper

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Culture

Culture

x Author:: Adam Kuper

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Among the anthropologists

Among the anthropologists

x Author:: Adam Kuper

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Man's most dangerous myth

Man's most dangerous myth

x Author:: Ashley Montagu

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World prehistory

World prehistory

x Author:: Brian Fagan

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Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

Hunting Tradition in a Changing World

x Author:: Ann Fienup-Riordan

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Yuungnaqpiallerput/ the Way We Genuinely Live

Yuungnaqpiallerput/ the Way We Genuinely Live

x Author:: Ann Fienup-Riordan

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The Fijians

The Fijians

x Author:: Basil Thomson

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Africa counts

Africa counts

x Author:: Claudia Zaslavsky

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Count on Your Fingers African Style

Count on Your Fingers African Style

x Author:: Claudia Zaslavsky

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Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults

x Author:: Bill Ellis

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Culture and Customs of Jamaica

Culture and Customs of Jamaica

x Author:: Pamela Mordecai

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Nisa

Nisa

x Author:: Marjorie Shostak

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Unequal Protection

Unequal Protection

x Author:: Thom Hartmann

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Rationality

Rationality

x Author:: Bryan R. Wilson

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Aboriginal American Harpoons

Aboriginal American Harpoons

x Author:: Otis Tufton Mason

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The Navaho

The Navaho

x Author:: Clyde Kluckhohn

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Ordinary Prussians

Ordinary Prussians

x Author:: William W. Hagen

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Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

x Author:: Reay Tannahill

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