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I really should buckle down and Marx & Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" and read up on Claude Levi-Strauss, Sassure, Chomsky, Foucault, Laquer...
I LOVE THEORY!
oh man... i'm finishing up an anthro major and about to start 8 more years of that for grad school... starting to hyperventilate thinking about those authors!!!

just kidding, they really are pretty interesting

A good book that has kind of an overview of (and includes) the major works by several of those authors (and many others... though I don't think it includes Chomsky, unfortunately) is "Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory"-- edited by Erikson and Murphy.

for fun i read bike and other "outdoor adventure" stories (ie: Miles from Nowhere, Heft on Wheels by Mike Magnuson, The Rider by Tim Krabbé, Joe Kurmaskie's books, A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson is one of my absolute favorites) and... more theory. Yep. I hear ya.

Currently in the stack o' books (getting ready for summer): Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash, No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs, Women in the Wild by "Travelers' Tales", Uncommon Ground ed. by William Cronon, and Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.

I've been trying to read Anna Karinina for about 6 years now... it's always in my stack of books for the summer