Anthropology
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Fred Appel
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Rebecca Brennan
Senior Editor, Social Sciences (Europe) -
Rachael Levay
Senior Editor, Sociology & Anthropology
Our books examine how people in disparate cultures across time and space live and think about their world鈥攁n examination that encourages us to think critically about our own cherished assumptions about culture, race, gender, reason, politics, and more. The Princeton list features work identified with the subfield of social or cultural anthropology, privileging theoretically and historically informed ethnography.
Recent offerings extend classic ethnographic methods into the study of emerging forms of digital culture. Princeton鈥檚 list also illuminates the biological and evolutionary aspects of human development, including books in paleoanthropology, primatology, cultural and behavioral evolution, human biology, and evolutionary medicine.
New & Noteworthy
Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jes煤s, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana
Featured Audiobooks
Series
Ideas
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The Book of Yerba Mate
Brewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea.
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The right way to drink yerba mate
The first time someone from North America tries yerba mate in the traditional style, with a gourd or cattle horn stuffed with smokey green leaves and the metal drinking straw, we often break one of the unwritten rules of the South American drink.
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Matsutake as world-makers
What a Mushroom Lives For takes us beyond the animal realm to explore a place barely known to most people, the inner realm of fungi and how they participate in making the world around them via their relations to microbes, other fungi, plants, and animals.
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A look inside Running Out
On the high plains of western Kansas, there is no clear line between water and second chances. Although I didn鈥檛 know it at the time, I was in search of both when I turned my Prius off a two-lane highway and onto the washboard gravel that led back to the farm.
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Welcome to Armageddon
Each day throughout the year, the tour buses begin arriving at Megiddo soon after 9:00 a.m., disgorging fifty tourists at a time. By the time the site closes at 5:00 p.m., several dozen buses will have deposited hundreds of visitors. 鈥淲elcome to Armageddon,鈥� the tour guides say, as they march their flocks up the steep incline and through the ancient city gate.
