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This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. The author shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social and economic conditions. It is by isolating and identifying these conditions that we will be able to understand and cope with some of our own apparently senseless life styles. In a devastating attack on the shamans of the counterculture, the author states the case for a return to objective consciousness and a rational set of political commitments.

Our Kind by Marvin Harris

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

The Gift by Marcel Mauss

Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict

Culture and Commitment by Margaret Mead

The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead

The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz

The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea by Annette B. Weiner

The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis

The Wayfinders by Wade Davis

Grave Matters by Nigel Barley

The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

In Search of the Primitive by Stanley Diamond

A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss

The human zoo by Desmond Morris

The Forest People by Colin M. Turnbull

Cultural Materialism by Marvin Harris

Why Evolution Is True by Jerry A. Coyne

Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade