Anthropology
An annotated collection of 3 books on anthropology, spanning 1934 to 2018. Featuring works by Ruth Benedict, Clifford Geertz, David Graeber — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Patterns of Culture
Benedict's 1934 classic of cultural anthropology, based on her and Franz Boas's fieldwork on three societies (Zuni, Dobu, Kwakiutl), argues that each culture is a coherent pattern that selects certain human capacities an…
The Interpretation of Cultures
Geertz's essay collection that introduced "thick description" — the idea that understanding a culture requires not just recording what people do but interpreting what their actions mean to them in context. The Balinese c…
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Graeber's thesis: a growing proportion of jobs in advanced economies are perceived as meaningless by the people who hold them, and this is not a bug in capitalism but a structural feature — the system produces unnecessar…