What to Read After Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
Readers who loved Cows, pigs, wars, & witches by Marvin Harris keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Cows, pigs, wars, & witches 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 Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
The Serpent and the Rainbow
The gift
The forest people
Nisa
Europe and the people without history
Sex and Temperament
Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn
Mother nature
The interpretation of cultures
The Forest of Symbols
Structural Anthropology
Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion
The choking doberman and other "new" urban legends
Cannibals and kings
Yanomamo, the fierce people
Myth and meaning
Why people believe weird things
The Naked Ape
The Human Zoo
YEAR 501
A history of private life
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Myths to live by
Argonauts of the Western Pacific