Social Anthropology

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Peter Just, John Monaghan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • "If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's guiding principles and methodology....

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    • By: David Reich
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,385 ratings
    • Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....

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    • Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
    • By: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights....

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    • Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
    • By: David Abram
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....

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    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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    • On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • Anthropologist David Graeber - one of our most important and provocative thinkers - traces the peculiar and unexpected ways we relate to bureaucracy today and reveals how it shapes our lives in ways we may not even notice....

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    • How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Dorothy Roberts
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era....

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    • The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
    • By: Robert Wald Sussman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Wald Sussman explains why....

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 546 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
    • By: Chris Gosden
    • Narrated by: Clarke Peters
    • Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Drawing on decades of research around the world - touching on the first known horoscope, a statue ordered into exile, and the mystical power of tattoos - Gosden shows what magic can offer us today and how we might use it to rethink our relationship with the world....

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    • The First 5,000 Years
    • By: David Graeber
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,770 ratings
    • Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt....

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    • The Conflict Between Word and Image
    • By: Leonard Shlain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations....

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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 2,154 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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    • By: Charles Darwin
    • Narrated by: David Case
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • Well more than a century after its first publication, The Origin of Species is still a powerful and fascinating read....

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    • In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery
    • By: J.M. Adovasio, Jake Page
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that J. M. Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited....

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    • Exploring the Anasazi World of the Southwest
    • By: David Roberts
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi....

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    • The Story of the First Trip Afoot Through the Grand Canyon
    • By: Colin Fletcher
    • Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In 1963 Colin Fletcher became the first man to walk the length of Grand canyon, below the Rim. It began with a dream, when he and a friend detoured from a cross-country trip to take a hurried look at the great natural wonder....

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