What to Read After Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Readers who loved Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society) by Claude Lévi-Strauss keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society) 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 Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
The interpretation of cultures
The gift
Purity and Danger
The elementary forms of the religious life
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
Outline of a theory of practice
The rites of passage
Europe and the people without history
The Forest of Symbols
Cannibals and kings
Structural Anthropology
Steps to an ecology of mind
Shamanism, colonialism, and the wild man
Sex and Temperament
Tristes Tropiques
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
On Collective Memory (Heritage of Sociology Series)
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Sex and temperament in three primitive societies
Violence et le sacré
Growing Up in New Guinea
Truth and method
Coming of age in Samoa
Specters of Marx