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

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1

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

4,420 members

32 reviews

3.8

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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

by Ursula K. Le Guin

934 members

40 reviews

½ 4.3

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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

27,784 members

407 reviews

4.1

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

16,473 members

463 reviews

4.1

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by Thomas Hobbes

9,853 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus

by Charles C. Mann

8,451 members

220 reviews

4.2

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Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

4,677 members

95 reviews

½ 3.6

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8

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

by Benedict Anderson

3,970 members

33 reviews

4

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

3,479 members

65 reviews

4.2

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

3,403 members

78 reviews

4.1

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The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion

by Mircéa Eliade

3,134 members

21 reviews

3.9

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12

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

2,640 members

81 reviews

4.2

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13

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker

2,593 members

63 reviews

4

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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

2,467 members

27 reviews

½ 3.6

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15

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

by Jared Diamond

2,374 members

51 reviews

½ 3.6

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16

The Undiscovered Self

2,128 members

26 reviews

4

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17

Development as Freedom

1,779 members

15 reviews

4

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18

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim

1,755 members

6 reviews

3.8

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Myths from Mesopotamia : creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others

by Stephanie Dalley

1,626 members

6 reviews

3.8

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Crowds and Power

by Elias Canetti

1,594 members

15 reviews

4.2

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21

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

by Francis Fukuyama

1,566 members

30 reviews

4.2

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22

Religion and the Decline of Magic : Studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England

by Keith Thomas

1,556 members

20 reviews

4.1

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23

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation

by Silvia Federici

1,452 members

22 reviews

½ 4.3

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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

1,385 members

30 reviews

½ 4.4

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25

The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies

by Marcel Mauss

1,280 members

7 reviews

3.8

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26

The Savage Mind

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,246 members

9 reviews

3.9

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27

Patterns of Culture

by Ruth Benedict

1,230 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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28

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

by Mary Douglas

1,218 members

9 reviews

4

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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

1,193 members

13 reviews

3.9

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30

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

by David W. Anthony

1,144 members

31 reviews

4

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Structural Anthropology

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

1,110 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

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by Bruce Pascoe

1,016 members

23 reviews

4.2

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33

From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

by Hans H. Gerth

997 members

1 review

3.9

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34

Rabelais and His World

by Mikhail Bakhtin

972 members

9 reviews

½ 4.3

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35

Against the Grain : A Deep History of the Earliest States

by James C. Scott

946 members

21 reviews

3.9

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36

Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900

by Alfred W. Crosby

919 members

7 reviews

4.2

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37

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry

878 members

6 reviews

4.1

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38

After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

by Steven Mithen

782 members

13 reviews

½ 3.6

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39

Europe and the people without history

by Eric R. Wolf

771 members

4 reviews

4.1

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Ya̦nomamö: The Fierce People

by Napoleon A. Chagnon

740 members

5 reviews

3.8

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41

The Economy of Cities

643 members

7 reviews

4.1

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42

The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

by Alfred W. Crosby

600 members

7 reviews

4

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The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

by James C. Scott

596 members

7 reviews

4.2

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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

by Elinor Ostrom

584 members

3 reviews

4

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45

Letters from Mexico

by Hernán Cortés

565 members

9 reviews

½ 3.6

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46

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

by Walter Scheidel

532 members

3 reviews

3.9

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47

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

by Victor Turner

523 members

2 reviews

3.9

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48

Argonauts of the Western Pacific

by Bronisław Malinowski

516 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

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49

Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi

by Timothy R. Pauketat

485 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

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50

The Middle Ground: Indian, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815

by Richard White

481 members

6 reviews

3.9

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51

The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy

by Murray Bookchin

478 members

5 reviews

4

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52

Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins

by Colin Renfrew

475 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

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53

Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

by James C. Scott

473 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

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54

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

by David Harvey

457 members

6 reviews

3.8

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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure

by Juliet B. Schor

445 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

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56

A History of Archaeological Thought

by Bruce G. Trigger

444 members

4 reviews

3.9

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57

Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology

by Pierre Clastres

423 members

2 reviews

4.1

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58

The Oxford Illustrated Prehistory of Europe

by Barry Cunliffe

423 members

1 review

4

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59

Daily Life of the Aztecs

by Jacques Soustelle

421 members

2 reviews

4

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60

The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe

by Marija Gimbutas

412 members

1 review

3.8

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Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe

401 members

2 reviews

4.2

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62

Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes

by Frans de Waal

399 members

3 reviews

4.1

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Stone Age Economics

by Marshall Sahlins

389 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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64

Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language

by Robin Dunbar

372 members

6 reviews

3.9

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65

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire

by David Cannadine

369 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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66

Aztecs: An Interpretation

by Inga Clendinnen

362 members

4 reviews

4

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67

The Shape of Time: Remarks on the History of Things

by George Kubler

352 members

2 reviews

3.9

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Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization

by A. Leo Oppenheim

351 members

3 reviews

3.8

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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind

by Colin Renfrew

332 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

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The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion

by Thorkild Jacobsen

324 members

3 reviews

4.2

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Slavery and Social Death

by Orlando Patterson

323 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

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72

The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke

by C. B. Macpherson

312 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

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73

Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

by Barry J. Kemp

302 members

3 reviews

3.9

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74

Man Makes Himself

by V. Gordon Childe

301 members

2 reviews

4

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75

Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570

by Inga Clendinnen

300 members

1 review

3.9

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76

Prehistoric Textiles

by E.J.W. Barber

292 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

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by Charles A. Eastman

283 members

6 reviews

3.1

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78

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

274 members

4.1

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79

Letters from a Peruvian Woman

by Françoise de Graffigny

258 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

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80

Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire

by David Graeber

244 members

6 reviews

4.1

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81

My Life as an Indian

by J. W. Schultz

240 members

5 reviews

4.1

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82

Islands of History

by Marshall Sahlins

239 members

5 reviews

4

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83

Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach

by Martha Nussbaum

239 members

2 reviews

3.1

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84

The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present

by Robert F. Berkhofer

236 members

½ 4.5

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85

The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World

by Cyprian Broodbank

216 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens

by Simon Martin

213 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

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87

The Court Society

by Norbert Elias

213 members

2 reviews

3.9

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88

The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman

by Davi Kopenawa

207 members

6 reviews

5

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A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760

by Michael Mann

206 members

2 reviews

3.9

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Stonehenge: A New Understanding: Solving the Mysteries of the Greatest Stone Age Monument

by Michael Parker Pearson

204 members

4 reviews

4.1

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The Way of the Masks

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

203 members

2 reviews

3

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Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding

by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

202 members

1 review

4

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93

Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams

by David Graeber

199 members

2 reviews

4

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Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications

by Louis Dumont

198 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

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The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization

by Daniel K. Richter

189 members

1 review

½ 3.4

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The southeastern Indians

by Charles Hudson

174 members

2 reviews

3.9

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America in 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus

by Alvin M. Jr Josephy

170 members

2 reviews

½ 3.3

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98

The Birth of Civilization in the Near East

by Henri Frankfort

166 members

1 review

4.2

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99

How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks

by Robin Dunbar

166 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

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100

Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest

by Nikolai Grube

157 members

1 review

½ 4.3

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