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
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Purity and Danger
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Tristes Tropiques
Structural Anthropology
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Coming of age in Samoa
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
The Ritual Process
Veiled Sentiments
Europe and the People Without History
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Sex and Temperament
Cannibals and Kings
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
The Forest of Symbols
Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man