What to Read After Cannibals and Kings
Readers who loved Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Cannibals and Kings 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 Cannibals and Kings
The Gift
Tristes Tropiques
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Structural Anthropology
Purity and Danger
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Coming of age in Samoa
The Interpretation of Cultures
Europe and the People Without History
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Sex and Temperament
World until Yesterday
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Against the Grain
Wayfinders
The Logic of Practice
Nisa
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
One River
The Forest People
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Veiled Sentiments
The Serpent and the Rainbow