What to Read After Nisa
Readers who loved Nisa by Marjorie Shostak keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Nisa 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 Nisa
Guests of the Sheik.
Coming of age in Samoa
The forest people
In Search of Respect
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Veiled sentiments
Death without weeping
Mama Lola. Voodoo in Brooklyn
Europe and the people without history
The Forest of Symbols
Sex and Temperament
Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Writing Women's Worlds
Return to laughter
The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior
Don't sleep, there are snakes
Neither Man nor Woman
Cannibals and kings
Ishi in two worlds
Translated woman
Yanomamo, the fierce people
Noble savages
Sex and temperament in three primitive societies