Books I want to read to keep the way I see the world anthropological because anthropology is everything and everywhere.
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last updated September, 2026
The Employees
Olga Ravn
Patterns of Culture
Ruth Benedict
The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia (Volume 6) (Studies in Melanesian Anthropology)
Marilyn Strathern
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Anthony Bourdain
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
William Alexander
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
Sara Ahmed
Complaint!
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Sophia Smith Galer
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
Gillian Tett
Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
Little Perfections: Eating in Singapore
Lim Tse Wei
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File
Katherine Verdery
Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology
James P. Spradley
Structural Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
David Graeber
The Comfort of Things
Daniel Miller
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
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