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
Tristes Tropiques
Structural Anthropology
Outline of a theory of practice
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
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
Sweetness and power
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Sex and Temperament
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
Cannibals and kings
The rites of passage
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
The Forest of Symbols