Archaeology & Anthropology

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 4 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The work is a scholarly survey of South‑Indian castes and tribal groups, compiled by Edgar Thurston in the…

Ancient society: or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

Lewis Henry Morgan

Lewis Henry Morgan’s Ancient Society is a scholarly treatise that maps humanity’s long‑term development from…

Finger-ring lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal

Jones, William, F.S.A.

Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7

Edgar Thurston

The volume is a systematic ethnographic reference that catalogues the myriad castes and tribal groups of…

The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles.

Ella Sophia Armitage

The work is a scholarly survey of early Norman fortifications across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland,…

The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2

Hubert Howe Bancroft

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly treatise by historian Hubert Howe Bancroft, assembled as part of…

Jerusalem Explored, Volume 1—Text Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans and Sections

Ermete Pierotti

Jerusalem Explored, Volume 1 is a scholarly survey of the Holy City that blends topographical description…

Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

G. Maspero

Maspero’s Manual of Egyptian Archaeology is a scholarly handbook that aims to give both students and…

Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art

Walter Woodburn Hyde

Walter Woodburn Hyde’s Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art is a scholarly survey of the surviving…

A thousand miles up the Nile

Amelia B. Edwards

Amelia B. Edwards’s A Thousand Miles up the Nile is a travelogue that blends vivid description of…

The history of human marriage

Edward Westermarck

The work is a scholarly treatise on the anthropology of marriage, written by Edward Westermarck and first…

Ritual and belief: Studies in the history of religion

Edwin Sidney Hartland

The work is a scholarly survey of the intellectual currents that have shaped the study of religion, magic and…

The evolution of religion: An anthropological study

Lewis Richard Farnell

Lewis Richard Farnell’s work is a modest yet ambitious attempt to map the development of religious ideas…

Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1931, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933.

The Forty‑Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology is a government‑issued compilation of…

Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 129-444))

James Mooney

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891

The Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, issued by the Government Printing Office in 1891, is a…

An essay towards a natural history of serpents

Charles Owen

Charles Owen’s work is a scholarly compendium on serpents, divided into three distinct sections.

History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2)

Walters, H. B. (Henry Beauchamp); Birch, Samuel

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient pottery that brings together the classic research of Samuel Birch…

Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century

John Hewitt

The work is a scholarly survey of medieval martial equipment, tracing the development of armor and weapons…

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (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 first‑volume narrative of the Austrian frigate Novara’s 1857‑1859 circumnavigation, compiled by…

Anthropology

A. L. Kroeber

Sculptured tombs of Hellas

Percy Gardner

Percy Gardner’s Sculptured Tombs of Hellas is a scholarly survey of Greek funerary art, organized as a…

Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings

Edward Sylvester Morse

Edward S. Morse’s Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings is a scholarly ethnographic survey of domestic…

Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World

Ignatius Donnelly

Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a nineteenth‑century synthesis that treats the legend…