The trilogy of book recommendations finally concludes. Wild Resistance no 6 is finally out now, plus information on issue no 7 and call for papers. The heavily revised and expanded second edition of For Wildness and Anarchy is nearly done, hopefully will be printer bound within the next few months. Fiction book recommendations, and a reason for the lack thereof. Reader requests: US history recommendations and kid’s book. A plug for Gathered Remains and Cull of Personality. History recommendations. Thoughts on a couple key (or not) anarchist books. And then a quick run through of the massive world of anthropological book recommendations: cultural anthropology, overviews, ethnographies, ethnohistory, and anthropological looks at war.
Thank you to the person who compiled the list of books discussed:
History & Native America:
Ward Churchill - Marxism and Native Americans
Daniel Immerwahr - How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Francis Jennings - The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies
David Treuer - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Kid’s Books:
Emily Hughes - Wild
Troy Howell - Whale in a Fishbowl
Mariana Ruiz Johnson - I Know a Bear
Oliver Jeffers - This Moose Belongs to Me
I Know a Bear - Jemmy Button
History:
Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Michel-Rolph Trouillot - Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Sidney Mintz - Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History
Sven Lindqvist - "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
John Gray - Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern
Mark Cocker - Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold: Europe's Conquest of Indigenous Peoples
Will Potter - Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
Anarchism:
Peter Kropotkin - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution
Anthropology - General:
Irven DeVore and Richard Borshay Lee - Man the Hunter
Marshall Sahlins - Stone Age Economics
Frances Dahlberg - Woman the Gatherer
Richard Lee - The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Hunters and Gatherers
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha - Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships
Helen Fisher - Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray
Peter J. Wilson - The Domestication of the Human Species
John Gowdy - Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment
James Woodburn - “Egalitarian Societies”
Marvin Harris - Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures, Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture, The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of Culture
John H. Bodley - Victims of Progress, The Power of Scale
Anthropology - War:
Pierre Clastres - Society Against the State, Archeology of Violence
Andrew P. Vayda - War in Ecological Perspective, Maori Warfare
Raymond C. Kelly - Warless Societies and the Origin of War
R Brian Ferguson - (ed) Warfare, Culture, and Environment, “Pinker's List: Exaggerating Prehistoric War Mortality,” “Blood of the Leviathan: Western Contact and Warfare in Amazonia”
Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado
Douglas P. Fry - Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace, (ed) War, Peace, and Human Nature: The Convergence of Evolutionary and Cultural Views
Anthropology - Ethnographies:
Colin Turnbull - The Human Cycle, Wayward Servants, The Forest People
Kirk M Endicott and Karen Lampell Endicott - The Headman was a Woman : the Gender Egalitarian Batek of Malaysia
Robert Wolff - Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
Joe Kan - Savages
Laura M. Rival - Trekking Through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador
Rupert Isaacson - The Healing Land: The Bushmen and the Kalahari Desert
James Suzman - Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
Sita Venkateswar - Development and Ethnocide: Colonial Practices in the Andaman Islands
Hugh Brody - The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
Morris Berman - Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality