What to Read After Structural Anthropology
Readers who loved Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Structural Anthropology 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 Structural Anthropology
The gift
Argonauts of the Western Pacific
The interpretation of cultures
The elementary forms of the religious life
Purity and Danger
Course in general linguistics
Outline of a theory of practice
Coming of age in Samoa
Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the Azande
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
The ritual process
Cannibals and kings
The Forest of Symbols
Veiled sentiments
Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
Linguistic Anthropology
A History of Archaeological Thought
Homo hierarchicus
Cows, pigs, wars, & witches
Myth and meaning
Tristes Tropiques
Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches
Images and Symbols
The logic of practice