What to Read After Return to Laughter
Readers who loved Return to Laughter by Elenore Smith Bowen keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Return to Laughter 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 Return to Laughter
The Forest People
Sex and Temperament
Nisa
Ishi in Two Worlds
Guests of the Sheik.
Conformity and Conflict
Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
Righteous Dopefiend
The Vulnerable Observer
The Forest of Symbols
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Coming of age in Samoa
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Never in Anger
The Innocent Anthropologist
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Bertrand Russell's best
Nisa, the life and words of a !Kung woman
Veiled Sentiments
The Silent Language
Yanomamo, the Fierce People
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics
Anthropology & Modern Life
The Ethnographic Interview