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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
4.11 average rating, · 16.9k ratings
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
4.04 average rating, · 6.8k ratings
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio Agamben
4.06 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge
Peter L. Berger
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Erotism: Death and Sensuality
Georges Bataille
4.05 average rating, · 4.4k ratings
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Michel de Certeau
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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
David Graeber
4.23 average rating, · 3.6k ratings
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The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz
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Distinction
Pierre Bourdieu
4.16 average rating, · 3.7k ratings
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Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Donna J. Haraway
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The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
Georges Bataille
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Elaine Scarry
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
Pierre Bourdieu
4.06 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology
Pierre Clastres
4.13 average rating, · 928 ratings
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Ordinary Affects
Kathleen Stewart
4.09 average rating, · 913 ratings
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Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
James C. Scott
4.23 average rating, · 821 ratings
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Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
Shawn Wilson
4.49 average rating, · 723 ratings
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Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
Bruno Latour
4.04 average rating, · 666 ratings
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Direct Action: An Ethnography
David Graeber
4.22 average rating, · 575 ratings
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The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart
Ruth Behar
4.17 average rating, · 534 ratings
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The Logic of Practice
Pierre Bourdieu
4.10 average rating, · 549 ratings
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