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Jared Diamond
War Before Civilization
Lawrence H. Keeley
Language
Daniel L. Everett
Indian Givers
Jack Weatherford
Dinner With King Tut
Sam Kean, Derek Shetterly
The Anthropology Book
DK, D.K. Publishing
The Anthropology of Economy
Stephen Gudeman
Violence and the Sacred
René Girard
The Bone Woman
Clea Koff
Living Language
Laura M. Ahearn
Anthropology
William Haviland, Harald Prins
Intelligence in Nature
Jeremy Narby
Anthropology, Ecology, and Anarchism
Brian Morris, Peter Marshall
When We Are Human
John Zerzan