What to Read After The Gift
Readers who loved The Gift by Marcel Mauss keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Gift is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Gift
The Interpretation of Cultures
Purity and Danger
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Structural Anthropology
Tristes Tropiques
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Coming of age in Samoa
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
The Ritual Process
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Veiled Sentiments
Europe and the People Without History
Sweetness and Power
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Sex and Temperament
Cannibals and Kings
Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
The Forest of Symbols
Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man