What to Read After The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Readers who loved The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Chrysanthemum and the Sword 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 Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The gift
Embracing Defeat
Structural Anthropology
Veiled sentiments
Sex and Temperament
Anatomy of Dependence
Purity and Danger
Japanese society.
The Best of Everything
Inventing Japan
A modern history of Japan
Zen Buddhism and its influence on Japanese culture
The Japanese mind
The world of the shining prince
The Japanese chronicles
Coming of age in Samoa
The interpretation of cultures
Dogs and Demons
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Outline of a theory of practice
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Country driving
The elementary forms of the religious life