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Looking for a good Anthropological SF

Have you read Ursula Le Guin?

Start with The Dispossessed or The Left Hand of Darkness.
 
Neanderthal by somebody named Darden but cant recall first name
Adam by another guy named Popescu whose first name I also cannot recall
Ancient Shores which is also listed on a previous posting in this section.
I do not know if you would classify these all as SF but they are all good books about anthropological type stuff, in my opinion. As you can see, I am not good with names.
 
The Helliconia series - Brian Aldiss
~In three books it tells the story of two races that rise and fall due to the planet's extremely long seasons.

The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
~A soldier lives to see Earth dramatically changed over 1000 years while he has been fighting aliens elsewhere in the galaxy.

Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner
~Overpopulation.

VALIS - Philip K. Dick
~Religious speculation.

West of Eden - Harry Harrison
~Humanity competes with an intelligent race of lizards.
 
Wouldnt call it SF, maybe "prehistorical fiction", but for tons of anthropology, there is the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel, starting with Clan of the Cave Bear.
Understand she will have another volume out next year in this series.
 
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