Victor Hugo Kebbe
Non-fiction books that expanded your understanding of the worldAnswer
Any non-fiction books that taught you something that made you understand the world better
1905 • 728 Readers • 427 pages • 3.7
Why this book?
This fiction book actually taught me how to love Philosophy when I was a teenager. That's definitely an achievement: making such a difficult topic interesting.
#1 of 3 in The History of Sexuality
1976 • 144 Readers • 116 pages • 3.6
Why this book?
This book somehow changed everything. It provides one of the best "first approaches" to rethinking gender and several of our contemporary social issues related to sexuality.
1975 • 264 Readers • 354 pages • 4.3
Why this book?
This book was also fundamental to my education.
2017 • 16 Readers • 71 pages • 4.3
Why this book?
It's an interesting book. Nothing new to anthropology, but it has a quite clear message.
1966 • 3 Readers • 5
Why this book?
This book was fundamental to my education, along with The Individualism, by the same author.
1976 • 1 Reader • 464 pages
Why this book?
This book was also fundamental to my education, and I still use it in my classes.
1 Reader
Why this book?
Such an important book, it's some sort of improved structuralism in social anthropology. Some of his insights were not new to me (because I'm a Japanese Studies scholar), but the way he constructs his argument is great.
10 Readers • 4.5
Why this book?
This book was also fundamental to my education, and I still use it in my classes (all the time).
1977 • 15 Readers • 408 pages • 4.3
Why this book?
This book was also fundamental to my education, and I still use it in my classes (by the way, yesterday).
2018 • 5 Readers • 140 pages • 5
Why this book?
This is a short, but revolutionary book. It changes almost everything, on how we must think social anthropology, but also on how we should think humanity.