Archaeology & Anthropology

The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough is a scholarly study of religion, magic and superstition that traces a single ritual, the…

The Evolution of Man

Ernst Haeckel

Adair's History of the American Indians

James Adair

James Adair’s History of the American Indians is a nineteenth‑century reprint of the original 1775 London…

The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems

Zelia Nuttall

The work is an expansive scholarly treatise by Zelia Nuttall that sets out to compare the religious,…

First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881

The First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology is a governmental document issued by the Smithsonian…

Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. I.

Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George); Davis, E. H.

The work is a scholarly memoir issued as the inaugural volume of the “Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge”…

The legend of Perseus, Volume 1 (of 3): The supernatural birth

Edwin Sidney Hartland

Hartland’s work is a scholarly treatment of the Perseus myth that blends narrative retelling with comparative…

Proceedings of the expedition to explore the northern coast of Africa, from Tripoly eastward: in MDCCCXXI. and MDCCCXXII., comprehending an account of the Greater Syrtis and Cyrenaica; And of the Ancient Cities Composing the Pentapolis

Beechey, Frederick William; Beechey, H. W.

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific travelogue documenting a British expedition that set out from…

Scatalogic Rites of All Nations A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe

John Gregory Bourke

John Gregory Bourke’s Scatalogic Rites of All Nations is a scholarly dissertation that catalogues the use of…

Legendary Islands of the Atlantic: A Study of Medieval Geography

William Henry Babcock

The work is a scholarly survey of medieval conceptions of the Atlantic’s far‑off islands, tracing how ancient…

English Villages

P. H. Ditchfield

The work is a comprehensive antiquarian survey of English village life, written by the late P. H. D.

The Andes and the Amazon; Or, Across the Continent of South America

James Orton

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific travelogue that records a Smithsonian‑sponsored expedition across…

Indian Conjuring

L. H. Branson

Indian Conjuring is a comparative study of stage magic that opens with a sweeping reflection on humanity’s…

The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century: An ethnohistorical survey

Catherine Marten

Catherine Marten’s monograph is an ethnohistorical survey that compiles every known documentary and…

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)

William Crooke

The volume is a scholarly survey of the popular religious beliefs and folk customs of northern India,…

People of the veil: being an account of the habits, organisation and history of the wandering Tuareg tribes which inhabit the mountains of Air or Asben in the central Sahara

Francis James Rennell Rodd Rennell of Rodd

This work is an ethnographic and geographical account of the Tuareg peoples who roam the mountains of Air…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)

James George Frazer

The third volume of James George Frazer’s monumental study continues the comparative survey of the “dying and…

The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1

Hubert Howe Bancroft

This volume is the first in Hubert Howe Bancroft’s ambitious series on the “Pacific States,” a term he uses…

The coasts of illusion: A study of travel tales

Clark B. Firestone

The work is a scholarly survey of the legendary geography that once filled maps and travelers’ imaginations.

The North-Americans of yesterday: a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the race

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh’s work is a scholarly comparative study that treats the Indigenous peoples of…

Early Britain—Roman Britain

John William Edward Conybeare

John William Edward Conybeare’s Early Britain, Roman Britain is a concise scholarly overview that seeks to…

The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times

Thomas Wilson

Thomas Wilson’s work is a scholarly survey that treats the swastika as a prehistoric emblem rather than a…

Russia

Donald Mackenzie Wallace

The city of Jerusalem

C. R. Conder

Claude R. Conder’s work is a scholarly travelogue that blends personal observation with the latest…