anthropology

Constance R. Sutton's dissertation on the 1958 wilcat strike by Barbadian sugar workers.

History of the 1958 sugar cane workers' wildcat strike in which workers at two…

This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political,…

In this article, anthropologist Natalia Buier discusses David Graeber’s proposition…

Climate change helped make human civilisation possible. Does it now threaten its existence?

In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures…

Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies which reflect the…

In this book first published in France in 2006, Michel Bounan recounts the history of the world according to a developmental schema defined not…

Of all the writing that emerged from the existentialist movement, Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking study of women will probably have the most…

Since 1500, Europeans have, for better & worse, called the tune that the world has danced to.

Libcom.org's reading guide to anthropology, specifically texts of relevance to those with a radical outlook on society.

David Graeber maps out the history of debt from ancient civilisations to current times, suggesting it has been one of the great catalysts for…