Showing results for "A Society" in Anthropology
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...
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The definitive Audible purchase
- By Jim on 22-01-14
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 18-01-11
- Language: English
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A Society of Siblings
- By: Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 54 mins
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Characterized by petty rivalries, self-indulgence and lack of responsibility, our actions fail to fulfill what Robert Bly describes as our true soul longing. With characteristic irreverence and storytelling from various cultures, Bly tells us what we should be doing about green-haired adolescents and idle elders, not to mention televisions and computers. His insightful focus illuminates the truths and possibilities of a culture caught in an adolescent phase of development.
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A Society of Siblings
- Narrated by: Michael Toms
- Length: 54 mins
- Release date: 30-10-08
- Language: English
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- By: Pascal Boyer
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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“There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature.” Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent insights from evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and other fields, Boyer offers precise models of why humans engage in social behaviors such as forming families, tribes, and nations, or creating gender roles.
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Brilliant book
- By Viktor Kazinec on 17-04-21
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Minds Make Societies
- How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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Animal Societies
- How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
- By: Ashley Ward
- Narrated by: Ashley Ward
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Join Biologist Ashley Ward as he takes listeners into the intimate worlds of social animals. Journeying from Aysgarth Falls to the Great Barrier Reef, it becomes clear that animals are not so far removed from us as we might imagine. In a time where humans are struggling to navigate cityscapes, isolation and a loneliness epidemic, Ward shows us that studying the social behaviour of animals offers insights valuable in their own right as well as a window into the evolutionary basis of our own species.
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Definitely my book of the year
- By hhj on 09-05-20
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Animal Societies
- How Co-Operation Conquered the Natural World
- Narrated by: Ashley Ward
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-04-20
- Language: English
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Herlands
- Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules
- By: Megha Mohan
- Narrated by: Megha Mohan
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think and govern, from BBC global correspondent Megha Mohan. Society isn’t working for women - or any of us. But what if the rules were different? Imagine a...
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Herlands
- Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules
- Narrated by: Megha Mohan
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-03-26
- Language: English
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Explaining Humans
- Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize
- By: Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2020 Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an...
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Not what I expected
- By N. Booth on 22-10-20
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Explaining Humans
- Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize
- Narrated by: Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In his million-copy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies and immunities that allowed them to dominate much of the world. Now in this brilliant companion volume, Diamond probes the other side of the equation: What...
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- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 27 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 04-11-14
- Language: English
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The Power of Language
- Multilingualism, Self and Society
- By: Viorica Marian
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some are fluent in maths. Humans are built for multilingualism. Drawing on cutting-edge research and theory, delivered with wit and lucid insight, psycholinguist Viorica Marian explores the ways in which the mind uses multiple languages and how, in doing so, we can open the doors to unique forms of creativity, brain health and cognitive control.
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A fascinating insight into the world of bi and multi-lingualism
- By Anonymous on 28-03-24
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The Power of Language
- Multilingualism, Self and Society
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-04-23
- Language: English
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Sex and Repression in Savage Society
- By: Bronisław Malinowski
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Bronislaw Malinowski's seminal work, Sex and Repression in Savage Society, delves into the intricate dynamics of sexuality and societal control within primitive cultures. Published in 1927, this ethnographic study challenges prevailing Victorian notions of sexuality and sheds light on the nuanced ways in which indigenous societies navigate and regulate sexual behaviors. Malinowski's immersive fieldwork in the Trobriand Islands enables him to provide a rich anthropological account, exploring the role of rituals, customs, and taboos in shaping sexual practices.
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Sex and Repression in Savage Society
- Narrated by: Mark Bowen
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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An Evening with Marion Woodman and Robert Bly on the Sibling Society
- By: Marion Woodman, Robert Bly
- Narrated by: Marion Woodman
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Where have all the grown-ups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national best seller, poet, storyteller, and translator Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling society" in which adults have regressed into adolescence and adolescents refuse to grow up. We are proud to present a previously unreleased lecture featuring both Marion Woodman and Robert Bly on the subject of the sibling society!
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An Evening with Marion Woodman and Robert Bly on the Sibling Society
- Narrated by: Marion Woodman
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 28-08-21
- Language: English
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- By: Daniel S. Milo
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Why is the genome of a salamander 40 times larger than that of a human? Why does the avocado tree produce a million flowers and only a hundred fruits? Why, in short, is there so much waste in nature? In this lively and wide-ranging meditation on the curious accidents and unexpected detours on the path of life, Daniel Milo argues that we ask these questions because we’ve embraced a faulty conception of how evolution - and human society - really works.
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One for acedmics of the subject, not the lay-person.
- By Adam Sheardown on 02-07-25
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Good Enough
- The Tolerance for Mediocrity in Nature and Society
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-06-19
- Language: English
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The World Until Yesterday
- What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- By: Jared Diamond
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem...
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The World Until Yesterday
- What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 31-12-12
- Language: English
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Early Human History
- From Hunter-Gatherers to the First Societies
- By: History Brought Alive
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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For most of human history, life offered no safety net. Environments shifted, resources vanished, and stability was always temporary. People lived on the move—carrying knowledge, forming bonds, and adapting to constant change. This audiobook examines how human life took shape long before familiar societies appeared. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and evolutionary science, it explores how early humans lived, moved, cooperated, and adapted over deep time.
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Another banger book
- By Anonymous on 01-04-26
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Early Human History
- From Hunter-Gatherers to the First Societies
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Consuming Grief
- Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
- By: Beth A. Conklin
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. By removing and transforming the corpse, Wari' death rites helped the bereaved kin accept their loss and go on with their lives. Drawing on the recollections of Wari' elders who participated in consuming the dead, this book presents one of the richest, most authoritative ethnographic accounts of funerary cannibalism ever recorded.
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Consuming Grief
- Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
- Narrated by: Ana Osorio
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 16-08-22
- Language: English
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Australia Reimagined
- Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society
- By: Hugh Mackay
- Narrated by: Hugh Mackay
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
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Argued with intelligence and passion, this book is essential reading for everyone who loves Australia enough to want to make it a better place for us all. 'When it comes to our future, misplaced optimism is as dangerous as blind faith. What is needed is the courage to face the way things are...
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Australia Reimagined
- Towards a More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society
- Narrated by: Hugh Mackay
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Power
- Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
- By: Richard Heinberg
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: Tool making ability, language, social complexity, and the ability to harness energy sources - most significantly, fossil fuels. It asks whether we have, at this point, overpowered natural and social systems, and if we have, what we can do about it. Has Homo sapiens - one species among millions - become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth's climate?
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Power
- Limits and Prospects for Human Survival
- Narrated by: David Skulski
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-05-22
- Language: English
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The Origin of Feces
- What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
- By: David Waltner-Toews
- Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, this cultural history explores an often ignored subject matter and makes a compelling argument for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching the subject from a variety of perspectives - evolutionary, ecological, and cultural - this examination shows how integral excrement is to biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution, and global ecosystems.
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entertaining and useful tripe. great book.
- By EngExciile on 11-04-19
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The Origin of Feces
- What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution, Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
- Narrated by: Kevin Scollin
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-11-13
- Language: English
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The Human Swarm
- How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
- By: Mark W. Moffett
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory of a different group, it will almost certainly be killed. But a New Yorker can fly to...
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The Human Swarm
- How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 19-04-19
- Language: English
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All Societies Die
- How to Keep Hope Alive
- By: Samuel Cohn
- Narrated by: Jay Webb
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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In an immersive and mesmerizing discussion, Cohn considers what makes societies (throughout history) collapse. All Societies Die points us to the historical examples of the Byzantine empire, the collapse of Somalia, the rise of Middle Eastern terrorism, the rise of drug cartels in Latin America, and the French Revolution to explain how societal decline has common features and themes. Cohn takes us on an easily digestible journey through history. While he unveils the past, his message to us about the present is searing.
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All Societies Die
- How to Keep Hope Alive
- Narrated by: Jay Webb
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-05-21
- Language: English
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The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History
- By: Dennis Waskul, Marc Eaton
- Narrated by: Colin McLain
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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The editors and contributors to The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History have made a concerted effort to understand encounters with ghosts and the supernatural that have remain present and flourished...The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History seeks to understand the socio-cultural and socio-historical contexts of the supernatural. This volume takes the supernatural as real because belief in it has fundamentally shaped human history.
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The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History
- Narrated by: Colin McLain
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 21-08-19
- Language: English
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