What to Read After Tristes Tropiques
Readers who loved Tristes Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Tristes Tropiques 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 Tristes Tropiques
The gift
The interpretation of cultures
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Coming of age in Samoa
Purity and Danger
The forest people
Cannibals and kings
Outline of a theory of practice
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
The Forest of Symbols
Europe and the people without history
Writing Women's Worlds
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
The Golden Bough
Structural Anthropology
The elementary forms of the religious life
Contingency, irony, and solidarity
The presentation of self in everyday life
Truth and method
Naming and necessity
The civilizing process
Nisa
Course in general linguistics
Literature and evil