Social Anthropology

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    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
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    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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    • By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • Powerfully introduced by Angela Davis, this is the classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis by Walter Rodney, Guyanese intellectual and leading thinker and activist of the anticolonial revolution....

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    • How Climate Made History 1300-1850
    • By: Brian Fagan
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming....

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    • How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
    • By: Joseph Henrich
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies....

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    • The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
    • By: Robert Wald Sussman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-18
    • Language: English
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    • Although eugenics is now widely discredited, some groups and individuals claim a new scientific basis for old racist assumptions. Pondering the continuing influence of racist research and thought, despite all evidence to the contrary, Robert Wald Sussman explains why....

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    • The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 231 ratings
    • Jared Diamond explores how the extraordinary human animal, in a remarkably short time, developed the capacity to rule the world...and the means to irrevocably destroy it....

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    • By: David Reich
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Drawing upon revolutionary findings and unparalleled scientific studies, Who We Are and How We Got Here is a captivating glimpse into humankind - where we came from and what that says about our lives today....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes
    • By: Alexandra Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Alexandra Horowitz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Alexandra Horowitz’s brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary - to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, "the observation of trifles"....

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    • Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown.
    • By: Daniel Coyle
    • Narrated by: Alex McMorran
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • In The Talent Code, award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that, far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth, ability really can be created and nurtured....

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    • Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
    • By: Johan Norberg
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive....

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    • From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
    • By: Zeinab Badawi
    • Narrated by: Zeinab Badawi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • For too long, Africa's history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa's spectacular history....

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    • Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
    • By: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights....

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    • Hybrid Humans, Göbekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America
    • By: Andrew Collins, Gregory L. Little
    • Narrated by: Micah Hanks
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 03-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Andrew Collins and Greg Little explore how the new mental capabilities of the Denisovan-Neanderthal and Denisovan-human hybrids greatly accelerated the flowering of human civilization over 40,000 years ago....

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    • A Study in Magic and Religion
    • By: Sir James George Frazer
    • Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
    • Length: 44 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology....

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    • Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
    • By: Michael Ruse
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • An insightful and probing exploration of the contradiction between humans' enormous capacity for hatred and their evolutionary development as a social species....

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    • The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World
    • By: Harvey Whitehouse
    • Narrated by: Harvey Whitehouse
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • One of the world's leading anthropologists reveals how our evolutionary past informed the birth and rise of global civilisation and uncovers the three evolutionary biases that shape our social behaviour: conformism, religiosity and tribalism....

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