What to Read After Purity and Danger
Readers who loved Purity and Danger by Professor Mary Douglas keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Purity and Danger 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 Purity and Danger
The interpretation of cultures
The gift
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The elementary forms of the religious life
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Structural Anthropology
Tristes Tropiques
Coming of age in Samoa
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
Death without weeping
Modernity at large
The ritual process
The rites of passage
Outline of a theory of practice
Veiled sentiments
The presentation of self in everyday life
Europe and the people without history
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
The Forest of Symbols
Local Knowledge: Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology
Sex and Temperament
Righteous dopefiend
Cannibals and kings
The Woman in the Body