What to Read After The interpretation of cultures
Readers who loved The interpretation of cultures by Clifford Geertz keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The interpretation of cultures 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 interpretation of cultures
The gift
Imagined communities
Purity and Danger
The elementary forms of the religious life
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Coming of age in Samoa
Outline of a theory of practice
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Tristes Tropiques
Modernity at large
Veiled sentiments
The presentation of self in everyday life
Structural Anthropology
Europe and the people without history
Myth and meaning
The ritual process
The Forest of Symbols
Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
The rites of passage
Beyond culture
The forest people
Cannibals and kings
Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
The Serpent and the Rainbow