Archaeology & Anthropology

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 2 (of 3) The Belief Among the Polynesians

James George Frazer

The work is a scholarly survey of Polynesian concepts of immortality and ancestor worship, extending the…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s third‑edition volume of The Golden Bough is a scholarly survey of myth, magic and…

The North Americans of Antiquity Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization considered

John T. Short

The North Americans of Antiquity is a scholarly survey of the earliest peoples of the United States, Mexico,…

Memorials of old Derbyshire

The book is a scholarly memorial of Derbyshire, assembled by the Rev. J.

Fossil plants, Vol. 1: [A text-book] for students of botany and geology

A. C. Seward

The work is a scholarly textbook on fossil plants, written by Albert C.

The Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments, of Great Britain Second Edition, Revised

John Evans

John Evans’s work is a scholarly catalogue of British stone antiquities, assembled from the collections of…

An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians

Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane’s work is a meticulous ethnographic account of Egyptian life as observed between 1833 and…

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

W. Y. Evans-Wentz

The Fairy‑Faith in Celtic Countries is a scholarly survey that treats the belief in fairies as a distinct…

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume 1 (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia

James George Frazer

The work is a scholarly collection of twelve lectures delivered by James George Frazer in the early 1910s at…

The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions

Arthur John Booth

Arthur John Booth’s work is a scholarly survey of the discovery and decipherment of the trilingual…

The castles and abbeys of England; Vol. 2 of 2 from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authors

William Beattie

The work is a richly illustrated survey of England’s medieval fortifications and monastic sites, compiled…

The legend of Perseus, Volume 2 (of 3): The life-token

Edwin Sidney Hartland

The work is a scholarly exploration of the “life‑token” motif that recurs in the Perseus legend and in folk…

The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology

Margaret Alice Murray

Margaret Alice Murray’s study is a scholarly investigation of the witch‑cult that once flourished across…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough, Volume 2 of James George Frazer’s monumental comparative study, is a scholarly survey of…

Man And His Ancestor: A Study In Evolution

Charles Morris

The work is a popular‑science treatise on human origins, written by Charles Morris to bridge the gap between…

Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

Edgar Thurston

Edgar Thurston’s Omens and Superstitions of Southern India is a scholarly survey of the “psychical life” of…

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

Morris Jastrow

Morris Jastrow’s The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria is a scholarly handbook that gathers, organizes, and…

An Illustrated Dictionary of Words used in Art and Archaeology Explaining terms frequently used in works on architecture, arms, bronzes, Christian art, colour, costume, decoration, devices, emblems, heraldry, lace, personal ornaments, pottery, painting, sculpture, &c., with their derivations.

John W. Mollett

This work is an illustrated dictionary that gathers and refines the terminology most commonly encountered in…

The Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890: Fourteenth annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, part 2.

James Mooney

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes

Strabo

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 2 (of 3) presents the ancient geographer’s systematic survey of the Greek…

On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay

Hugh E. Seebohm

The work is a scholarly essay that seeks to reconstruct the tribal foundations of ancient Greek society by…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s first volume of The Golden Bough is a scholarly study of comparative religion, magic,…

Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares

R. L. Hobson

The Indian To-day: The Past and Future of the First American

Charles A. Eastman

The work is a nonfiction study that sets out to examine the condition and prospects of the North American…