18 books like Horizons of Anthropology

What to read after Horizons of Anthropology — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 704p · ≈ 23h · Moderate "Shoshana Zuboff, named "the true prophet of the information age" by the Financial Times, has always been ahead of her time. Her seminal book In the Age of the Smart Machine foresaw the consequences of a then-unfolding era of computer technology. Now, three decades later she asks why the once-celebrated miracle of digital is turning into a nightmare. Zuboff tackles the social, political,… Shares: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Anthropology

Civilization Edward Carpenter · 1889 · 175p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Preface to complete edition.--Civilisation: its cause and cure.--Modern science: a criticism.--The science of the future: a forecast.--Defence of criminals: a criticism of morality.--Exfoliation: Lamarck versus Darwin.--Custom.--A rational and humane science.--The new morality.--Appendix--being notes on some of the characteristics and customs of pre-civilised peoples. Shares: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Anthropology

Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell · 1949 · ★ 3.9 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Challenging From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority & the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority & human freedom. With characteristic clarity & deep understanding, he explores the formation & purpose of society, education, moral evolution & social, economical & intellectual progress. First of the… Shares: Cultural Policy, Cultural, Public Policy, Anthropology

Artificial knowing Alison Adam · 1997 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "In Artificial Knowing, Alison Adam boldly challenges the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world which prescribes the masculine as the norm and excludes other knowers and knowledge, specifically women. Adam fills a large gap in science and technology studies by showing us how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems." "By locating feminist theory in relation to science and… Shares: Cultural Policy, Public Policy, Anthropology, Political science

Argonauts of the western Pacific Bronisław Malinowski · 1922 · ★ 3.8 · 626p · ≈ 20h · Challenging "Bronislaw Malinowski's pathbreaking Argonauts of the Western Pacific is at once a detailed account of exchange in the Melanesian islands and a manifesto of a modernist anthropology. Malinowski argued that the goal of which the ethnographer should never lose sight is 'to grasp the native's point of view, his relation to life, to realise his vision of his world.' Through vivid evocations of Kula… Shares: Ethnologie, Anthropology

The Dogma of Christ Erich Fromm · 1963 · ★ 4.0 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "Fromm's developing thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future." —The Washington Post The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm's work. The Dogma of Christ provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the… Shares: Humanities textbooks, Addresses, Essays

Hovels to Highrise Anne Power · 1993 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate This takes the historical, political and social changes relating to housing in five European countries, and considers the housing history and traditions which have lead to growing tensions within their most disadvantaged communities. Shares: Social Science, Political science

Psychology and the human dilemma Rollo May · 1967 · ★ 4.1 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The development of an existential psychology in America is in good part the work of Rollo May. He helped bring existentialism to psychology some fifteen years ago, and since then his impact has increased each year. As he says here, he isn't an existentialist in a cultist sense. In American psychology, the existential approach is part of a wider trend which includes many views" (Eugene T. Gendlin,… Shares: Addresses, Essays

The flamingo's smile Stephen Jay Gould · 1985 · ★ 4.2 · 476p · ≈ 15h · Moderate "THE FLAMINGO'S SMILE is about history," writes the author in this volume of essays, "...and about what it means to say that life is the product of a contingent past, not the inevitable and predictable result of simple, timeless laws of nature. Quirkiness and meaning are my two not-so-contradictory themes." Flamingos that feed upside down; flowers and snails that change from male to female; the… Shares: Aufsatzsammlung, Addresses, Essays

Illustrations of universal progress Herbert Spencer · 1864 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging 15 works of Herbert Spencer English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era (1820-1903) This ebook presents a collection of 15 works of Herbert Spencer. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Illustrations of Universal Progress - A… Shares: Political science, Essays

Science and the human temperament Erwin Schrödinger · 1935 · 223p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares: Addresses, Essays

Tristes Tropiques Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1955 · ★ 4.1 · 404p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Tristes Tropiques was an immensely popular bestseller when it was first published in France in 1955. Claude Levi-Strauss's groundbreaking study of the societies of a number of Amazonian peoples is a cornerstone of structural anthropology and an exploration by the author of his own intellectual roots as a professor of philosophy in Brazil before the Second World War, as a Jewish exile from… Shares: Ethnologie, Anthropology

Autoethnography and the Other Tami Spry · 2016 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Challenging the critique of autoethnography as overly focused on the self, Tami Spry calls for a performative autoethnography that both unsettles the "I" and represents the Other with equal commitment. Expanding on her popular book Body, Paper, Stage, Spry uses a variety of examples, literary forms, and theoretical traditions to reframe this research method as transgressive, liberatory, and… Shares: Ethnologie, Social Science

Social Sciences Kath Woodward · 2003 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of Social Sciences: The Big Issues explores key debates about how we live our personal, domestic and emotional lives at a time of enormous, previously unimaginable change and disruption, including a pandemic that locked down households and economies. Since the third edition, everyone’s life has changed. The pandemic – at least temporarily – stopped… Shares: Social Science, Political science, Essays

Ecrits Jacques Lacan · 1966 · ★ 4.2 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition. Shares: Addresses, Essays

Myth and meaning Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1978 · ★ 3.8 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the… Shares: Anthropology, Addresses

Reason & violence R. D. Laing · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A revolutionary compilation of speeches which produced a political groundwork for many of the radical movements in the following decades The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues. Edited by David… Shares: Addresses, Essays

Theories of the Policy Process Paul A. Sabatier · 1999 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Since the first edition published in 1999 with editor Paul Sabatier, Theories of the Policy Process has served as the quintessential gateway to the field of policy process research for students, scholars and practitioners alike. This enduring and well-regarded volume provides a forum for the creators of, or scholars with deep expertise in, the most established and widely used theoretical… Shares: Public Policy, Political science, Essays

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