Anthropology, Ethnology All books

Alain Bentolila

We Are Not Bonobos: I Talk, Therefore I Am

The conquest of language and writing against the chaos of the world and all its forms of manipulation

Pascal Picq

And Evolution Created Woman Sexual Coercion and Violence in Men

An accessible, compelling assessment of what has been learned concerning the relationships between the sexes/genders from an evolutionary point of view.

Alexandre Stern

Monkeys in the Kitchen How Cooking Made Us Human

How the invention of culinary and agricultural practices, the discovery and exchange of products, through the millennia have contributed to civilizing the human being.

Marc Abélès

Diary of an Anthropologist From May '68 to the Gilet Jaunes

The story of an intellectual and political commitment that takes its roots in May 68. From May 68 to the Yellow Vests, an anthropologist's look and analysis of new forms of political expression

Marc Augé

Resuscitated

A realistic and almost contemporary story that questions the progress of medicine and our quest for immortality.

Barbara Polla

The New Feminisms Struggles and Dreams in the Post-Weinstein Era

New light shed on feminism by a woman involved in the women’s movement. To find oneself in a galaxy of feminist currents. A reflection on the status of women.

Pascal Picq

Artificial Intelligence and the Chimpanzees of the Future For an Anthropology of Intelligence

Confronted with future challenges connected with the emergence of AI, a lucid and enlightening look by a paleoanthropologist, specialist in evolution.

Marc Abélès

Is Luxury Worth Considering? An anthropology of luxury

The originality of Marc Abélès, an anthropologist who has always carried out his research against the grain, off the beaten path. A study of luxury that does not lean on classic sociological themes from the time of Bourdieu, those of distinction and domination.