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Japan
David Murray
The work is a comprehensive historical survey of Japan, aiming to follow the nation from its mythic origins…
ReadThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)
James George Frazer
The third volume of James George Frazer’s monumental study in religion, magic and superstition opens with a…
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
Daniel G. Brinton
Daniel G. Brinton’s The Myths of the New World is a scholarly treatise that seeks to explain the symbolic…
ReadPictographs of the North American Indians. A preliminary paper Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 3-256
Garrick Mallery
The work is a scholarly report by Garrick Mallery, presented as the fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of…
ReadThe Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography
Joseph Deniker
Deniker’s The Races of Man offers a compact survey of late‑Victorian anthropology, presenting the “essential…
ReadThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
James George Frazer
The Golden Bough is James George Frazer’s exhaustive comparative study of religion, magic and superstition,…
ReadTotem and taboo: Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud’s Totem and Taboo is a scholarly attempt to bridge psychoanalysis with the anthropology of…
Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life
Yaggy, L. W. (Levi W.); Haines, T. L.
Museum of Antiquity is a nineteenth‑century reference work that seeks to compress the breadth of classical…
ReadThe Round Towers of Ireland; or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans
Henry O'Brien
The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly treatise that sets out to solve the long‑standing puzzle of…
ReadThe early history of the Hebrews
A. H. Sayce
The book is a scholarly attempt to rewrite the history of Israel on the basis of recent archaeological…
ReadA Pictorial Atlas of Fossil Remains, consisting of coloured illustrations selected from Parkinson's "Organic remains of a former world," and Artis's "Antediluvian phytology."
Gideon Algernon Mantell
The work is a richly illustrated reference that assembles the coloured plates of Parkinson’s “Organic Remains…
ReadPausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.
active approximately 150-175 Pausanias
Pausanias’ Description of Greece, Volume I, is a first‑hand travelogue from the Roman‑era scholar who roamed…
ReadItinerarium curiosum (centuria II): or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his work
William Stukeley
The work is a posthumous compilation of William Stukeley’s scattered notes, plates, and tracts, assembled to…
ReadThe Australian aboriginal
Herbert Basedow
Herbert Basedow’s work is a sprawling ethnographic treatise that gathers together decades of field notes,…
ReadThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 10 of 12)
James George Frazer
James George Frazer’s third‑edition volume concludes the monumental comparative study of myth, magic and…
ReadGreece and Babylon: A comparative sketch of Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Hellenic religions
Lewis Richard Farnell
Lewis Richard Farnell’s work is a scholarly lecture‑series that sets out a comparative study of the major…
ReadThe passing of the great race; or, The racial basis of European history
Madison Grant
The work is a nineteenth‑century‑style treatise that attempts to rewrite European history as a story of…
ReadNarrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.
Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von
The work is a detailed scientific and cultural report of the Austrian frigate Novara’s three‑year world…
ReadThe Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.
Alice Bertha Gomme
The work is a scholarly compilation of traditional children’s games from England, Scotland and Ireland,…
ReadCeltic art in Pagan and Christian times
J. Romilly Allen
This volume is a scholarly survey of Celtic visual culture from its pagan roots through its Christian…
ReadThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)
James George Frazer
The work is a scholarly expansion of James George Frazer’s monumental study of myth, magic and religion,…
ReadThe excavations at Babylon
Robert Koldewey
Robert Koldewey’s The Excavations at Babylon is a meticulous archaeological report rather than a narrative…
ReadNative life in East Africa: The Results of an Ethnological Research Expedition
Karl Weule
The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 4, Antiquities The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 4
Hubert Howe Bancroft
The volume is a scholarly survey of the monumental archaeology of the Pacific States, positioned as the…