High Anthropology

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,217 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • Bird Catching, Cave Art & The Cognitive Revolution
    • By: Clive Finlayson
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a "cognitive revolution" (c. 50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing archaic Homo species....

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    • A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
    • By: Frans de Waal
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 580 ratings
    • What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....

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    • UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers
    • By: Sarah Scoles
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery - both terrestrial and cosmic....

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    • Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
    • By: Michael Ruse
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species....

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    • Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
    • By: Dana Hercbergs
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Overlooking the Border continues the dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street plaques, tourism, and real estate projects....

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    • In Search of Water on the High Plains
    • By: Lucas Bessire
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland....

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    • By: René Girard
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.

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    • By: Mariana Dimópulos, J. M. Coetzee
    • Narrated by: M.L. Sanchez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Speaking in Tongues finally emerges as an engaging and accessible work of philosophy, shining a light on some of the most important linguistic and philological issues of our time.

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    • How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
    • By: Don Kulick
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying....

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    • A Theological Critique of a Modern Science
    • By: Khaled Furani
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Redeeming Anthropology explores how in pursuit of a secular science sired by the Enlightenment, adherents to a "faith in mankind" have vacillated between rejecting and embracing theology, albeit in concealed and contradictory ways....

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    • A Paleoanthropologist Investigates Our Evolving Species
    • By: Sang-Hee Lee, Shin-Young Yoon
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • In Close Encounters with Humankind, paleoanthropologist Sang-Hee Lee explores some of our biggest evolutionary questions from unexpected new angles. Through a series of entertaining, bite-sized chapters, we gain new perspectives into our first hominin ancestors....

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    • An Anthropology of College
    • By: Susan D. Blum
    • Narrated by: Laura Jennings
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology, set out to understand why her students found their educational experiences at a top-tier institution so profoundly difficult and unsatisfying....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Brad Land
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-04
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • At turns shockingly fierce and surprisingly tender, Goat is a shattering memoir that graphically portrays the scarred emotional landscape of young men....

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    • Social Science Perspectives on Racial Categories in the Age of Genomics
    • By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. - foreword, Kazuko Suzuki - editor, Diego A. von Vacano - editor
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Race is an elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know it when we see it, it's not an easy concept to define. The book argues that, to understand what we mean by race, social scientists need to engage new perspectives coming from genomics, medicine, and health policy....

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