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Books I'll return to at a later time.

  • First World, Ha, Ha, Ha! The Zapatista Challenge - edited by Elaine Katzenberger (1995)

  • Semiotics for Beginners - Daniel Chandler

  • The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon, translated by Constance Farrington (1963)



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This list is not comprehensive. Entries marked with ☢ are my favorites.

  • 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann (2006)

  • The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene - Patricia MacCormack (2020)

  • AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame - Paul Farmer (1992)

  • American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon - Stephen Prothero (2003)

  • American Possessions: Fighting Demons in the Contemporary United States - Sean McCloud (2015) ☢

  • American Wildlife in Symbol and Story - edited by Angus K. Gillespie and Jay Mechling (1987)

  • Ancient Jewish Magic: A History - Gideon Bohak (2008)

  • Angels and Demons: Jewish Magic Through the Ages - edited by Filip Vukosavović (2010)

  • Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science - edited by Tom Regan (1986)

  • Animals in Folklore - edited by J.R. Porter and W.M.S. Russell (1978)

  • Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (5th ed.) - R. Jon McGee and Richard L. Warms (2012)

  • The Arabic Influence on Early Modern Occult Philosophy - Liana Saif (2015)

  • Baboon Mothers and Infants (2nd ed.) - Jeanne Altmann (2001)

  • The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia - W.F. Ryan (1999)

  • BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights - Omar Barghouti (2011)

  • Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation - Sunaura Taylor (2017)

  • Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence - David Benatar (2006)

  • Between Worlds: Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism - J.H. Chajes (2003)

  • The Biological Roots of Human Nature - Timothy H. Goldsmith (1994)

  • Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors - Carolyn Finney (2014)

  • Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon, translated by Richard Philcox (2007)

  • Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions - edited by Christopher M. Bell (2012)

  • Blessed is the Flame: An introduction to concentration camp resistance and anarcho-nihilism - Serafinski (2016) ☢

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

  • Cahokia: The Great American Metropolis - Biloine W. Young and Melvin Fowler (2000)

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Islam - edited by Julianne Hammer and Omid Safi (2013)

  • Canaanite Myths and Legends (2nd ed.) - J.C.L. Gibson (2004)

  • Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Fisher (2009)

  • Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (1st ed.) - edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman (2002)

  • Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism (2nd ed.) - edited by Daisy Hernández and Bushra Rehman (2019)

  • Confronting the Death Penalty: How Language Influences Jurors in Capital Cases - Robin Conley (2016)

  • Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community - Faye D. Ginsburg (2002)

  • Cricket Sings: A Novel of Pre-Columbian Cahokia - Kathleen King (1983)

  • Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction - Dawne McCance

  • Crow Planet: Finding Our Place in the Zoöpolis - Lyanda Lynn Haupt (2009)

  • The Culture of Teenage Mothers - Joanna Gregson (2009)

  • Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic - Emma Wilby (2010)

  • The Damned Art: Essays in the Literature of Witchcraft - edited by Sydney Anglo (2011)

  • Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology - Andrei A. Orlov (2011)

  • Deep Ecology and World Religions: New Essays on Sacred Ground - edited by David Landis Barnhill and Roger S. Gottlieb (2001)

  • Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief - Walter Stephens (2002)

  • Desert - Anonymous (2011) ☢

  • The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America - Michael T. Taussig (1980)

  • The Devil in the New World: The Impact of Diabolism in New Spain - Fernando Cervantes (1994)

  • Disability Histories - edited by Susan Burch and Michael Rembis (2014)

  • The Disability Studies Reader - edited by Lennard J. Davis (2006)

  • Discourse Analysis (2nd ed.) - Barbara Johnstone (2007)

  • Discourse on Method and Related Writings - René Descartes (2003)

  • DisCrit: Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory in Education - David J. Connor, Beth A. Ferri, and Subini A. Annamma (2015)

  • Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation - Frederick H. Cryer (1994)

  • Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine - Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb (2008)

  • Eight Theories of Religion (2nd ed.) - Daniel L. Pals

  • Emotions in the History of Witchcraft - edited by Laura Kounine and Michael Ostling (2016)

  • En la ardiente oscuridad - Antonio Buero Vallejo (1947)

  • Evil and the Devil - edited by Ida Frölich and Erkki Koskenniemi (2013)

  • Fairies, Demons, and Nature Spirits: "Small Gods" at the Margins of Christendom - edited by Michael Ostling (2018)

  • Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race - Ellen Samuels (2014) ☢

  • First Peoples in a New World - David J. Meltzer (2010)

  • The Folkloric Component of Medicine in the Belief, Custom, and Ritual of the Peoples of Europe and America - Wayland D. Hand (1980)

  • For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement - Kathryn Shevelow (2008)

  • From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths - Heather O'Donoghue (2007)

  • The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists - edited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman (2014)

  • Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - Judith Butler (1997)

  • The Gods of the Ancient Slavs: Tatishchev and the Beginnings of Slavic Mythology - Myroslava T. Znayenko (1980)

  • Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary - Jeremy Black and Anthony Green (1991)

  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

  • Grimoires: A History of Magic Books - Owen Davies (2009)

  • Health, Disease and Healing in Medieval Culture - edited by Sheila Campbell, Bert Hall, and David Klausner (1991)

  • Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World - edited by Deena Ragavan (2013)

  • Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in America - Chas S. Clifton (2006) ☢

  • Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (2nd ed.) - Lyle Campbell (2004)

  • Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism - Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2000) ☢

  • The Holy and the Profane: Evolution of Jewish Folkways - Theodor H. Gaster (1980)

  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World - David W. Anthony (2007)

  • Human Reproductive Biology (4th ed.) - Richard E. Jones and Kristin H. Lopez (2014)

  • Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity - Naomi Janowitz (2002)

  • In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma - edited by David Grant Noble (2004)

  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)

  • Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction (2nd ed.) - Benjamin W. Fortson (2010)

  • An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (4th ed.) - Terry Crowley and Claire Bowen (2010)

  • An Introduction to Judaism - Nicholas de Lange (2000)

  • An Introduction to Language (10th ed.) - Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, and Nina Hyams (2013)

  • Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880-1950 - Susan L. Smith (2005)

  • Jewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Ortal-Paz Saar (2017)

  • Jewish Mysticism and Magic: An Anthropological Perspective - Maureen Bloom (2007)

  • Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli

  • Just Between Us: An Ethnography of Intimacy and Male Identity in Rural Northern Mexico - Guillermo Nuñez Noriega (2014)

  • Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed - Pinchas Giller (2011)

  • Language and Woman's Place: Text and Commentaries - Robin Tolmach Lakoff, edited by Mary Bucholtz (2004)

  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language - Steven Pinker (1994)

  • The Lapidary of King Alfonso X the Learned - translated by Ingrid Bahler and Katherine Gyékényesi Gatto (1997)

  • Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural - Howard Schwartz (1991) ☢

  • Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader (2nd ed.) - Alessandro Duranti (2009)

  • Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic: Health Care in Early America - Elaine G. Breslaw (2012)

  • Love Stories: Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia - Paul Manning (2015)

  • Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria - Ann Jeffers (1995)

  • Magic and Divination in the Ancient World - edited by Leda Ciraolo and Jonathan Seidel (2002)

  • Magic in Islam - Michael Muhammad Knight (2016)

  • Magic Spells and Formulae: Aramaic Incantations of Late Antiquity - Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked (1993)

  • Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe - Sophie Page (2013)

  • A Manual for Creating Atheists - Peter Boghossian (2013)

  • Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine - Erika Janik (2014)

  • The Materiality of Magic: An artifactual investigation into ritual practices and popular beliefs - edited by Ceri Houlbrook and Natalie Armitage (2015)

  • Medicating Modern America: Prescription Drugs in History - edited by Andrea Tone and Elizabeth Siegel Watkins (2007)

  • Medicine, rationality, and experience: an anthropological perspective - Byron J. Good (1997) ☢

  • Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species - Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (2000)

  • Mysticism and Madness: The Religious Thought of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav - Zvi Mark (2009)

  • Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind - Nikolas Rose and Joelle M. Abi-Rached (2013)

  • Neuroethics: An Introduction with Readings - edited by Martha J. Farah (2010)

  • New Atlantis and The Great Instauration - Francis Bacon, edited by Jerry Weinberger (1989)

  • Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings - Isaac Newton (2005)

  • The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture - edited by Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (1997)

  • Palgrave Advances in Witchcraft Historiography - edited by Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies (2007) ☢

  • Philosophy of Natural Science - Carl G. Hempel (1966)

  • Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russia and Soviet Folk Tales - edited by Marina Balina, Helena Goscilo, and Mark Lipovetsky (2005)

  • The Posthuman - Rosi Braidotti (2013)

  • A Prayer for the Dying: A Novel (reprint ed.) - Stewart O'Nan (2009)

  • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman (1959)

  • The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation - Daina Ramey Berry (2017)

  • Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others - Sara Ahmed (2006)

  • The Qur'an - translated by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (2010)

  • Racism as Zoological Witchcraft: A Guide to Getting Out - Aph Ko (2019) ☢

  • A Razor for a Goat: A Discussion of Certain Problems in the History of Witchcraft and Diabolism - Elliot Rose (1989)

  • Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture - Sherronda J. Brown (2022) ☢

  • Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone - edited by Patricia O'Connell Killen and Mark Silk (2004)

  • Religions of Antiquity - edited by Robert M. Seltzer (1989)

  • Religious and Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi - edited by Mark Csikszentmihalyi and Philip J. Ivanhoe (1999)

  • Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions - edited by Mu-chou Poo (2009)

  • The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability - Jasbir K. Puar (2017)

  • The Rite of Amethystine Light - Andrew D. Chumbley (2003)

  • Ritos de iniciación: tres novelas cortas de Hispanoamérica - José Emilio Pacheco (1986)

  • Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion (3rd ed.) - edited by David Hicks

  • Ritual Practices to Gain Power: Angels, Incantations, and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism - Rebecca Mary Lesses (1998)

  • Sacred Sites: Contested Rites/Rights - Jenny Blain and Robert Wallis (2007)

  • A Science and Religion Primer - edited by Heidi A. Campbell and Heather Looy (2009)

  • The Scientific Background to Modern Philosophy: Selected Readings - edited by Michael R. Matthews (1989)

  • The Scientific Revolution - Steven Shapin (1996)

  • Sorcery in the Black Atlantic - edited by Luis Nicolau Parés and Roger Sansi (2011)

  • Spinoza: Practical Philosophy - Gilles Deleuze (1988)

  • Spirit Possession in Judaism: Cases and Contexts from the Middle Ages to the Present - edited by Matt Goldish (2003)

  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed.) - Thomas S. Kuhn (1970)

  • Sumerian Art - André Parrot (1970)

  • The Tipping Point: How Little THings Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell (2002)

  • Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways (2nd ed.) - Gemma Gary (2015)

  • Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan - John Day (2002)

  • Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church - Joel Cabrita (2014)

  • Touching a Nerve: Our Brains, Our Selves - Patricia Churchland (2013)

  • Two New Sciences - Galileo Galilei (1989)

  • The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Introduction with Text, Translation, and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4 - Mark S. Smith and Wayne T. Pitchard (2009)

  • The Vinland Sagas: The Norse Discovery of America - translated by Magnus Magnusson and H. Palsson (1965)

  • Visions of Culture (4th ed.) - Jerry D. Moore

  • Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality - edited by Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ (1989)

  • The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction - Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke (2008)

  • Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed - Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2013)

  • White Man's Water: The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community - Erica Prussing (2011)

  • Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America - edited by Helen A. Berger (2005)

  • Witchcraft Dialogues: Anthropological and Philosophical Exchanges - edited by George Clement Bond and Diane M. Ciekawy (2001)

  • Witchcraft in Europe and the New World 1400-1800 - P.G. Maxwell-Stuart (2001)

  • Women and Gender in Islam: The Historical Roots of a Modern Debate - Leila Ahmed (1992)

  • Women's America: Refocusing the Past (8th ed.) - edited by Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De Hart, Cornelia Hughes Dayton, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (2015)

  • Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations - Sharla M. Fett (2002)

  • The World of the Witches - Julio Caro Baroja (1975)

  • The Xenofeminist Manifesto - Laboria Cuboniks (2018)

  • A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States - C. Lynn Carr (2015)


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