📚 Anthropology

What people do and why they say they do it — kinship, ritual, exchange, and the argument about culture.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject anthropology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Conformity and conflict	James P. Spradley	1971	49
	Anthropology and modern life	Franz Boas	1928	40
	Die Gabe	Marcel Mauss	1950	33
	21 Lessons for the 21st Century	Yuval Noah Harari	2018	33
	The Phenomenon of Man	Pierre Teilhard de Chardin	1955	28
	World Prehistory and Archaeology	Michael Chazan	2007	28
	Humanity	James G. Peoples	1988	27
	Anthropology	Conrad Phillip Kottak	1974	24
	Introduction to forensic anthropology	Steven N. Byers	2001	24
	Cultural Anthropology	Jack David Eller	2009	24
	Cross-Cultural Psychology	Eric B. Shiraev	2012	24
	Annual Editions	Elvio Angeloni	1991	22
	Anthropology	Carol R. Ember	1973	20
	Anthropology	Edward B. Tylor	1881	19
	Annual editions	Elvio Angeloni	1993	19
	The Dawn of Everything	David Graeber	2021	19
	Anthropology	Raymond Scupin	1991	17
	Cultural anthropology	Roger M. Keesing	1935	15
	Nutrition and physical degeneration	Weston A. Price	1938	15
	The Gift	Lewis Hyde	1983	15
	The Embarrassment of Riches	Simon Schama	1987	15
	Cultural anthropology	Emily A. Schultz	1987	14
	Anthropology	Melvin Ember	1997	14
	The birth and death of meaning	Ernest Becker	1962	13
	Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors	Carl Sagan	1992	13
	Anthropological theory	R. Jon McGee	1996	13
	Introducing Anthropology	Michael Alan Park	1999	13
	Forensic Anthropology	Natalie R. Langley	2012	13
	Cultural Anthropology	Kenneth J. Guest	2013	13
	Cultural anthropology	Marvin Harris	1983	12

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 28 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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