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Tag Archives: anthropology
Book of January 27, 2010
One hundred years of Kiowa history, in stories about ordinary lives, based on personal memories.
Book of December 30, 2009
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles Mann.
Book of December 20, 2009
I would have said that France is one of the countries least in need of discovery, but Graham Robb shows me how very, very wrong I was.
Book of November 27, 2009
My teenage associate said, "This was written by an adult who pays attention, and who remembers what it's like."
Book of November 24, 2009
A complex fantasy of near-Pratchettian wit and commentary. The rules for Epic Drama are especially funny and meta. As I was reading, I dithered about whether I was going to be able to recommend this book, because of something in the early chapters that really got under my skin. In the event I do recommend it [...]
Book of November 22, 2009
How crowds form, grow, and give power to their leaders -- and especially how leaders get power from the death of a crowd of their followers, for a pile of bodies is still, in human psychology, a crowd: a crowd of the dead.
Book of November 17, 2009
Before the agricultural revolution, there was the String Revolution: how and why women invented textiles, and why textiles are quintessential women's work.
Book of October 16, 2009
Honest, even-handed field guide to the personalities and conflicts in paleoanthropology.
Book of October 4, 2009
The book that set the standard for in the study of commodities in human history and thought.