What to Read After Myth and Meaning
Readers who loved Myth and Meaning by Claude Lévi-Strauss keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Myth and Meaning 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 Myth and Meaning
The Sacred and the Profane
The Interpretation of Cultures
The Ritual Process
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Myth and Reality
Coming of age in Samoa
Modernity at Large
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
The Nature of Greek Myths
Purity and Danger
Morphology of the Folktale
Myths to Live By
Structural Anthropology
Language and Myth
The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history
The Gift
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Mythologies
Images and Symbols
Truth and Method
Course in general linguistics
Homo Ludens