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Robert Marett Anthropology

Adventure
English
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Ages 18 and up
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Robert Ranulph Marett (13 June 1866 – 18 February 1943) was a British ethnologist. An exponent of the British evolutionary school, he focused primarily on anthropology of religion. In this field he modified the theories of E. B. Tylor.Marett was the only son of Sir Robert Pipon Marett, poet and Bailiff of Jersey, and Julia Anne Marett. He was born in Saint Brélade. He belonged to a family, originally named Maret, that settled on Jersey from Normandy in the 13th century. [more]

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Margaret Alice Murray The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology

Adventure
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Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963)[1] was a prominent English Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, and [more]

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Daniel Garrison Brinton Anthropology As a Science and as a Branch of University Education in the United States

Medical
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Ages 18 and up
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Brinton was born in Thornbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Yale University in 1858, Brinton studied [more]

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Margaret Alice Murray The Witch-cult in Western Europe

A Study in Anthropology

Fiction
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Ages 18 and up
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The Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray was published in 1921, at a time when the influence [more]

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Kimberlyn Boster & Nikki Weidner ParanormalXSisters Complete series

Science mixed with supernatural?

Fiction
English
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No Age Recommendation
311
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That would ruin the plot if i told you. But there is alot of spernaturalistic things that happen [more]

Keywords: Vampire, experiments, immortal, live forever, sisters, forensic, anthropology

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Fernando Herrera Jr The Temple in the Sky

And the Misinterpreted Foreign Pirates

Science Fiction
English
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A witty anthropologist is outraged by immature theories of narrow minded, culture blinded archeologists and scientists. He travels to Nazca, Peru, to study the ancient, mysterious lines, which were carved onto the desert flats of Peru by the natives, thousands of years ago. He intends to prove, once and for all, that they were intended, merely for religious and mythological purposes. Once there, he seems to find exactly what he expected: evidence of religious rituals, etc. but he still cannot explain how the lines were created. By chance, he stumbles upon an ancient manuscript of bizarre chronicles, one that was forged by a "forgotten," ancient king of Nazca. He "un-riddles" it out of curiosity and question, and discovers the location of a secret temple that would prove to become one of the grandest treasures ever to be discovered. However, this is only the background plot, this story is mostly about the ancient King and his adventures with the temple. [more]

Keywords: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Action, Drama, Mystery, History, Aliens, Anthropology, King

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Charles White The Story of the Blacks

The Aborigines of Australia

Education
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Ages 6 and up
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The Story of the Blacks: The Aborigines of Australia by Charles White, first published in 1904. The black race of Australia will in a short time be but a memory, for the final issue in the unequal struggle between the white man and his coloured brother is not far off, and the last chapter of the history of the aborigines is even now being written. In dealing with this subject I do not purpose devoting much time to speculation concerning their origin; that is a division in which the general reader could not be expected to take any interest, howsoever attractive it may be to scientists. [more]

Keywords: Aborigines, Australia, History, Ethnology, Anthropology, Story Blacks, Aborigines of Australia, Charles White

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Daniel Bryant The Book of Lies

Misinformation for the simple minded

Philosophy
English
3618 Words
No Age Recommendation
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This book is a parody and is not meant to reflect my real worldview or beliefs about life. [more]

Keywords: evolution, creation, worldview, lies, truth, the origins of man, anthropology, outerspace, universe, galaxy, animal life, ape

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James George Frazer The Golden Bough

Social Science
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Ages 8 and up
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes. Frazer offered a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought was substantial. The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief to scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat and many other symbols and practices whose influence has extended into twentieth-century culture.[3] Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought. This thesis was developed in relation to J. M. W. Turner's painting of The Golden Bough, a sacred grove where a certain tree grew day and night. It was a transfigured landscape in a dream-like vision of the woodland lake of Nemi, "Diana's Mirror", where religious ceremonies and the "fulfillment of vows" of priests and kings were held. The king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth. He died at the harvest and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend of rebirth is central to almost all of the world's mythologies. [more]

Keywords: the golden bough, james frazer, comparative religion, magic, myth and mythology, ancient religions, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology

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WILLIAM S. LYON THE COCOANUT WITH REFERENCE TO ITS PRODUCTS AND CULTIVATION IN THE PHILIPPINES

Social Science
English
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Ages 18 and up
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William S. Lyon received his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1970 and has spent his career in the study [more]

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