What to Read After The Forest of Symbols
Readers who loved The Forest of Symbols by Victor Turner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Forest of Symbols 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 Forest of Symbols
The Interpretation of Cultures
Coming of age in Samoa
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Nisa
The Gift
Structural Anthropology
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Purity and Danger
Veiled Sentiments
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Modernity at Large
Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco
Tristes Tropiques
Natural Symbols; Explorations in Cosmology
The Forest People
Reindeer People
Conformity and Conflict
Wisdom Sits in Places
Return to Laughter
Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches
Good to eat
The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
Portraits of "the Whiteman"