Archaeology & Anthropology

The Catholic World, Vol. 25, April 1877 to September 1877

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Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 3 and appendix

Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

Maximilian, Prince of Wied’s third part and appendix is a detailed travelogue of his 1832‑34 expedition into…

Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands.

Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s work is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles his solitary trek across…

Die Sitten der Völker, Zweiter Band Liebe, Ehe, Heirat, Geburt, Religion, Aberglaube, Lebensgewohnheiten, Kultureigentümlichkeiten, Tod und Bestattung bei allen Völkern der Erde

Der vorliegende Band ist ein umfassendes ethnologisches Handbuch, das die Sitten und Gebräuche aller Völker…

American Indian life

The work presents itself as a scholarly overview of Native American cultures aimed at a general readership,…

Surnames as a Science

Robert Ferguson

Robert Ferguson’s work is a scholarly survey of English surnames that treats seemingly modest or even vulgar…

Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01

Mungo Park

This work is a first‑person account of Mungo Park’s early African expeditions, compiled from his own journals…

Sea Monsters Unmasked, and Sea Fables Explained

Henry Lee

The work is a Victorian‑era natural history essay that sets out to demystify the legendary sea‑serpent and…

The Lenâpé and Their Legends With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity

Daniel G. Brinton

The work is a scholarly compilation by Daniel G. Brinton that brings together a series of ethnological…

Histoire des légumes

Georges Gibault

Ce volume, signé par Georges Gibault, se présente comme une étude exhaustive de l’histoire des légumes…

Custom and Myth New Edition

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Custom and Myth is a scholarly survey that challenges the prevailing “orthodox” approach to…

The Sea-Kings of Crete

James Baikie

The Sea‑Kings of Crete is a scholarly survey that blends mythic narrative with the latest archaeological…

Africana; or, the heart of heathen Africa, Volume 1 (of 2): Native customs and beliefs

Duff Macdonald

The work is a Victorian‑era missionary ethnography by the Rev.

Lion and Dragon in Northern China

Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston

The work is a scholarly travelogue that treats the British‑held port of Weihaiwei as a microcosm of China.

The Bronze Age and the Celtic World

Harold Peake

Harold Peake’s The Bronze Age and the Celtic World is a scholarly study first presented as a six‑lecture…

Pedagogical Anthropology

Maria Montessori

Pedagogical Anthropology is a scholarly treatise that frames anthropology as a science directly serving…

A century of excavation in the land of the Pharaohs

James Baikie

The work is a scholarly survey of a century and a quarter of archaeological activity in Egypt, written by…

The Kacháris

Sidney Endle

Sidney Endle’s work is a scholarly monograph on the Kachári, an indigenous people of Assam and northern…

The mind of primitive man: A course of lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston, Mass., and the National University of Mexico, 1910-1911

Franz Boas

Franz Boas’s work is a series of public‑lecture notes originally delivered at the Lowell Institute and the…

Shepp's Photographs of the World

Shepp, James W.; Shepp, Daniel B.

Shepp’s Photographs of the World is a sweeping visual compendium that strings together a globe‑spanning…

My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)

Giovanni Battista Cerruti

Giovanni Battista Cerruti’s My Friends the Savages is a first‑person travelogue that opens with a vivid…

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. — Volume 1 Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition.

John MacGillivray

The work is a detailed, first‑person account of the Royal Navy’s surveying expedition aboard H.M.S.

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa is a pioneering anthropological study that treats adolescence as a…

The instinct of workmanship, and the state of industrial arts

Thorstein Veblen

Thorstein Veblen’s “The Instinct of Workmanship, and the State of Industrial Arts” is a scholarly essay that…