Books & Teaching
Reading guides, classic texts and classroom ideas for teaching kinship, networks and models.
Systems thinking books for people who study societies
Systems thinking and complexity books by level for readers of anthropology: Meadows on feedback, Mitchell on complexity, Schelling on social models.
The best anthropology books, from a first read to the field's classics
Anthropology books for beginners and beyond: three to start with, then kinship, evolution, methods and the fieldwork classics courses still assign.
Genetic genealogy books by level, from a first DNA test to written proof
A reading guide to genetic genealogy and DNA genealogy books grouped by level: starting out, working with DNA matches, and going deeper into proof and cases.
Teaching kinship with a spreadsheet, one row per person
Build a small genealogy in Excel or Google Sheets: one row per person, formulas that find grandparents, siblings and cousins, and a lookup that names relatives.