Anthropologists Wanted: Why Organizations Need Anthropology
By: Laurens Bakker
3.57
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
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1. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
By: Philippe Bourgois
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critica… read more
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2. The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
By: Dayo Olopade
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The path to progress in Africa lies in the surprising and innovative solutions Africans are finding… read more
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"After years studying informality in Nigeria, Dutch architect and planner Rem Koolhaas reach the same conclusion. In the West, he writes, “there’s a sense of infinite choice, but a very conventional s…"-Dayo Olopade, The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
3. The Left Hand of Darkness
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more
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"The king was pregnant."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Truth is a matter of the imagination."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"The light is the left hand of darkness"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
4. Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
By: Tania Murray Li
3.00
Format: 76 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an i… read more
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5. 'Illegal' Traveller: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders
By: Shahram Khosravi
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Based on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers, Illegal Travelleroffers a narr… read more
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6. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more
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7. White Nation
By: Ghassan Hage
3.17
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
Anthropologist and social critic Ghassan Hage explores one of the most complex and troubling of mod… read more
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8. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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9. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
10. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
By: Lila Abu-Lughod
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Updated Edition With a New Preface Lila Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Wester… read more
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11. Piranesi
By: Susanna Clarke
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls … read more
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"In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
"May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
"The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
"It does not matter that you do not understand the reason. You are the Beloved Child of the House. Be comforted. And I am comforted."-Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
12. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more
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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
13. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
By: Ocean Vuong
4.04
Format: 246 pages, Hardcover
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when th… read more
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"It was beauty, I learned, that we risked ourselves for."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"To look at something is to fill your whole life with it, if only briefly."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"What were you before you met me?" "I think I was drowning" "And what are you now?" "Water"-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
"A page, turning, is a wing lifted with no twin, and therefore no flight. And yet we are moved."-Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
14. Detransition, Baby
By: Torrey Peters
3.94
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpect… read more
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"The moment elongates like pulled taffy."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"All pain merits care, but not dogmatically egalitarian relativism."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"The days I don't love you... I have to work hard to make those days happen."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
"She's the type to turn hardship into hardness, like a shield for people she loves."-Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby
15. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
By: Thomas Hylland Eriksen
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Ranging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north and from small villages to modern nation state… read more
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"The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we liv…"-Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
16. Anthropologists Wanted: Why Organizations Need Anthropology
By: Laurens Bakker
3.57
Format: 182 pages, Paperback
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17. Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner
By: Riall Nolan
3.89
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Anthropologist practitioners work outside the confines of the university, putting their knowledge a… read more
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