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
Collapse
Coming of age in Samoa
The interpretation of cultures
Purity and Danger
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Structural Anthropology
The forest people
The logic of practice
One River
Europe and the people without history
Stone Age Economics (Anthropology and Ethnography: Economic Anthropology)
Nisa
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Sex and Temperament
The Serpent and the Rainbow
World until Yesterday
Veiled sentiments
Don't sleep, there are snakes
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
The collapse of complex societies