The Gift
by Marcel Mauss | 
Global Shadows
by James Ferguson | 
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
by Marvin Harris | 
Yemen Chronicle
by Steven C. Caton | 
The Interpretation of Cultures
by Clifford Geertz | 
Yanomamo
by Napoleon A. Chagnon | 
Neanderthal Man
by Svante Paabo | 
Cannibals and Kings
by Marvin Harris | 
Weaponizing Anthropology
by David H. Price | 
The Harmless People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas | 
Noble Savages
by Napoleon A. Chagnon | 
What Color Is the Sacred?
by Michael Taussig | 
Mad Dogs, Englishmen, and the Errant Anthropologist
by Douglas Raybeck | 
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
by Katherine Verdery | 
Colapso
by Jared Diamond | 
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah | 
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr | 
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay | 
The Stranger
by Albert Camus |
First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in an introduction to that edition, the astonishing modernity of the mind of one of the century's greatest thinkers. The book offers a fascinating snapshot of magic throughout various cultures as well as deep sociological and religious insights still very much relevant today. At a period when art, magic and science appear to be crossing paths once again, A General Theory of Magic presents itself as a classic for our times.