Educational and entertaining. If you love this, you will love his new book about "Genghis Khan". This complete and concise reintroduction of 850 years of glorified Mongol history will be shocking and eye opening experiences for you. According to his long journey of tireless research, Genghis Khan had established our modern civilization. What a history, what a extraordinary work.

I have taken one class from Prof. Weatherford, and plan on taking another this coming year. He is one of the most popular and well-liked professors at Macalester College because he is, in a word, fascinating. He combines an immense field of knowledge with an engrossing lecture and discussion style. He does the same in this book, penning a book that both broadens awareness and understanding, and entertains. I would often intend to read one chapter then go to bed, but would end up many chapters later wondering what happened to the time. If you want a book which is written for those not steeped in anthropology, and which contains a great amount of educational material of interest to people from all fields of study and interests, this is an excellent book to buy, read, and enjoy.

This is another brilliant, fascinating, and very entertaining book by Jack Weatherford. Like Indian Givers, each chapter of Savages and Civilization would make a documentary program all its own. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. This author is like the anthropology and history professors you wish you'd had, rolled into one. His writing style stirs the imagination and his thoughts and facts are easy to visualize. If you like your anthropology told with good stories, you can't miss with this book.

. . . you'll probably loan it to someone and never get it back.
This falls squarely into the 'I'm curious about it but would never admit it' camp. Most people would be extremely curious to take a back of the curtains view of the porn industry. Recently, PBS scored some of its highest ratings ever during a insider's view at the smut film world in a documentary but no one (except me, maybe) would admit to watching it.
I highly recommend finding a good used copy of this. Better yet, buy two copies so you can loan one out and keep the other to revisit every once in a while.

Women photographed in pornographic magazines assume the same poses seen in she-baboons in estrus. This and hundreds of other fascinating comparisons make "Porn Row" a must read for the educated potential sex worker or sex-work consumer.

How could this text have fallen out of print? Surely a cultural oversight. Undercover as a clerk, Weatherford becomes a Malinowski of a dirty-book store. He non-judgementally analyzes the activities and means of the hustlers and marks he sees and works with, even participating in the culture as a supplier of drug-free urine.

I consider myself lucky to have found a copy in my local public library, and hope to see it reissued soon, perhaps with an introduction by Monica Lewinsky. I was hoping to find a copy to give as a christmas present to my cousin the sex worker, who will certainly be able to relate to the anthropological anecdote about the African villiage with thirty-seven married adult residents and eightyfour on-going love affairs, fourteen of which involve one very busy woman who has no husband of her own but supports herself and her children based on gifts from her lovers.

This book continues to delight me every time I read it. I first picked it up in high school when I worked part time in a bookstore. Since then, I cannot count the number of people this book has passed through. No one has ever thought that it is a waste of time.
If you want to read a detailed accounting of the underlying persona of American sexuality, this is it. This text reveals without judgment or titillation. It is an honest portrayal of all sides of sexuality. I recommend this book to anyone who will listen. It is a shame that it is out of print. Another book of Jack's worth owning is the hard to find 'Tribes on the Hill'.