Books in the Bibliography of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Max Weber
4,406 members
32 reviews
3.8
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
by Ursula K. Le Guin
921 members
40 reviews
½ 4.3
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond
27,804 members
408 reviews
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,298 members
460 reviews
4.1
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Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
9,813 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus
by Charles C. Mann
8,434 members
220 reviews
4.2
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Murder in Mesopotamia
by Agatha Christie
4,759 members
95 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber
3,405 members
64 reviews
4.2
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
3,378 members
78 reviews
4.1
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The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion
by Mircéa Eliade
3,112 members
21 reviews
3.9
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
2,620 members
81 reviews
4.2
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
2,575 members
63 reviews
4
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2,453 members
27 reviews
½ 3.6
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
by Jared Diamond
2,361 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Undiscovered Self
by C. G. Jung
2,107 members
26 reviews
4
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Development as Freedom
by Amartya Sen
1,764 members
15 reviews
4
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
by Émile Durkheim
1,751 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Myths from Mesopotamia : creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others
by Stephanie Dalley
1,607 members
6 reviews
3.8
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Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti
1,582 members
16 reviews
4.2
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama
1,551 members
29 reviews
4.2
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation
by Silvia Federici
1,424 members
22 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies
by Marcel Mauss
1,274 members
7 reviews
3.8
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The Savage Mind
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,241 members
9 reviews
3.9
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Patterns of Culture
by Ruth Benedict
1,222 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
by Mary Douglas
1,207 members
9 reviews
4
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
by Ian Shaw
1,185 members
13 reviews
3.9
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Structural Anthropology
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
1,100 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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Dark Emu
by Bruce Pascoe
1,010 members
23 reviews
4.2
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From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
by Hans H. Gerth
996 members
1 review
3.9
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Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail Bakhtin
968 members
9 reviews
½ 4.3
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Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott
934 members
21 reviews
3.9
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Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
by Alfred W. Crosby
912 members
7 reviews
4.2
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
by Elaine Scarry
876 members
6 reviews
4.1
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After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC
by Steven Mithen
778 members
13 reviews
½ 3.6
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Europe and the people without history
by Eric R. Wolf
767 members
4 reviews
4.1
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Ya̦nomamö: The Fierce People
by Napoleon A. Chagnon
738 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Economy of Cities
by Jane Jacobs
639 members
7 reviews
4.1
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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
by Alfred W. Crosby
598 members
7 reviews
4
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Letters from Mexico
by Hernán Cortés
562 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
by Victor Turner
520 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Argonauts of the Western Pacific
by Bronisław Malinowski
518 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
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Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
by Timothy R. Pauketat
487 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
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Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins
by Colin Renfrew
477 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
by Murray Bookchin
476 members
5 reviews
4
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
by James C. Scott
471 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey
453 members
6 reviews
3.8
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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B. Schor
443 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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A History of Archaeological Thought
by Bruce G. Trigger
439 members
4 reviews
3.9
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The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe
by Barry Cunliffe
422 members
1 review
4
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
by Pierre Clastres
418 members
2 reviews
4.1
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Daily Life of the Aztecs
by Jacques Soustelle
417 members
2 reviews
4
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The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe
by Marija Gimbutas
408 members
1 review
3.8
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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
by Peter Burke
398 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes
by Frans de Waal
397 members
3 reviews
4.1
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Stone Age Economics
by Marshall Sahlins
387 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language
by Robin Dunbar
370 members
6 reviews
3.9
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Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
by David Cannadine
367 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
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Aztecs: An Interpretation
by Inga Clendinnen
364 members
4 reviews
4
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The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things
by George Kubler
349 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
by A. Leo Oppenheim
348 members
3 reviews
3.8
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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind
by Colin Renfrew
331 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
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Slavery and Social Death
by Orlando Patterson
323 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
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The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion
by Thorkild Jacobsen
321 members
3 reviews
4.2
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The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke
by C. B. Macpherson
311 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
by Barry J. Kemp
302 members
3 reviews
3.9
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Man Makes Himself
by V. Gordon Childe
300 members
2 reviews
4
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
by Inga Clendinnen
299 members
1 review
3.9
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Prehistoric Textiles
by E.J.W. Barber
292 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
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Indian Boyhood
by Charles A. Eastman
281 members
6 reviews
3.1
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An Introduction to Western Philosophy
by Antony Flew
271 members
4.1
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Letters from a Peruvian Woman
by Françoise de Graffigny
256 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
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Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire
by David Graeber
244 members
6 reviews
4.1
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Islands of History
by Marshall Sahlins
239 members
5 reviews
4
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Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach
by Martha Nussbaum
238 members
2 reviews
3.1
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My Life as an Indian
by J. W. Schultz
235 members
5 reviews
4.1
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The Court Society
by Norbert Elias
212 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens
by Simon Martin
210 members
4 reviews
½ 4.3
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The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
by Davi Kopenawa
206 members
6 reviews
5
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A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
by Michael Mann
205 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications
by Louis Dumont
199 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Way of the Masks
by Claude Lévi-Strauss
198 members
2 reviews
3
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The southeastern Indians
by Charles Hudson
174 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The Birth of Civilization in the Near East
by Henri Frankfort
166 members
1 review
4.2
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Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest
by Nikolai Grube
156 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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