basically my reading list...
created by sarangua
last updated May, 2026
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
Keith H. Basso
Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient
Edward W. Said
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada
James Hunter
Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
Marc Augé
Nations and Nationalism
Ernest Gellner
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism
Adrian Hastings
When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda
Mahmood Mamdani
Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest
Richard K. Nelson
Animals in Person: Cultural Perspectives on Human-Animal Intimacies
John Knight
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
Gregory Bateson
When Species Meet
Donna J. Haraway
Language Death (Canto)
David Crystal
Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language)
Jonathan Rosa
Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)
Bambi B. Schieffelin
We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno Latour
The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought
Thomas S. Kuhn
Structural Anthropology
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
Correspondences
Tim Ingold
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Promise of Multispecies Justice
Sophie Chao
Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Laura M. Ahearn
Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description
Hi there! I highly recommend Wisdom Sits in Places by Basso - integral to an Anthropology syllabus
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