Early Anthropology and Archaeology

Early Anthropology and Archaeology includes 117 books, with a particularly strong collection on Native Americans.

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Table of Contents

General

General Anthropology

The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, Volume 8, 1893

Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison

Anthropology by R.R. Marett

Bygone Beliefs by H. Stanley Redgrove

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought by Alexander Farncis Chamberlain

The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith

The Evolution of Love by Emil Lucka, translated by Ellie Schlussner

From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Weston

Humanite Prehistorique, Esquisse de Prehistoire Generale (in French) by Jacques de Morgan

Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Nature Mysticism by J. Edard Mercer

A New System or an Analysis of Antient Mythology by Jacob Bryant, 1807

volume 1

volume 2

The Witch-Cult in Weswtern Europe by Margaret Alice Murray

General Archaeology

Buried Cities by Jennie Hall

How to Observe in Archaeology

Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric People by Marquis de Nadailac, translated by Nancy Bell

The Prehistoric World by E.A. Allen

African

• The Folk-Literature of the Galla of Southern Abyssinia by Enrico Cerulli (in html format)
• part 1
• part 2
• People of Africa by Edith How

Arab

• The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup

Australian

• Australian Legendary Tales, Folk Lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies, collected by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker
• The Book of the Bush, Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale
• The Bushman by Edward Wilson Landor
• The Bushman: Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor
• The Euahlayi Tribe--A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker
• The Gundungurra Language by R.H. Mathews
• Gurre Kamilaroi: or Kamilaroi Sayings by William Ridley
• Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote W. Thomas, 1906
• The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by R.H. Mathews

Balkans

• Lettre de M. L'Abbe Fortis a mylord comte de Bute sur les Moeurs et Usages ds Morlaques, Appelles Montenegrin, 1778

British

• Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding

Celtic

• Celtic Religion in Pre-Christian Times by Edward Anwyl

China

• Religions of Ancient China by Herbert Giles

Egyptian

• Manual of Egyptian Archaeology by G. Maspero

French

• The Christmas Kalends of Provence and Some Other Provencal Festivals by Thomas A. Janvier

Greek

• The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie, 1913

Gypsy

• The Gipsies' Advocate or Observations on the Origin, Character, manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb, 1831

India

• The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India by R.V. Russell
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 4

Native American

• Aboriginal American Weaving by Mary Lois Kissell
• Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Alphabetical vocabularies of the Clallam and Lummi by George Gibbs
• Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Alfred Tozzer and Glover Allen
• Annals of the Cakchiquels by Daniel Brinton
• Casa Grande Ruin by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians
• Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore by J. Walter Fewkes
• Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas
• The Delight Makers [about Pueblo Indians] by Adolf F. Bandelier
• Documentary History of the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico by Adolph F. Bandelier
• Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1886-1887 by J.W. Powell
• Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William H. Holmes (html file)
• A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation, a Study in Anthropology by Horatio Hale
• Hochelagans and Mohawks by W.D. Lighthall
• Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages by J.O. Dorsey, A.S. Gatschet, and S.R. Riggs
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona in 1879 by James Stevenson
• Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made by the Bureau of Ethnology During the Field Season of 1881 by William H. Holmes [illustrations not included]
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuni, New Mexico and Wolpi, Arizona in 1881 by James Stevenson [illustrations not included]
• Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 by James Stevenson [illustrations not included]
• Indian Story and Song from North American by Alice C. Fletcher
• Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow
• The Maya Chronicles edited by Daniel Brinton, 1882
• Mexico: Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History and Political Conditions by C. Reginald Enock
• The Mid[-e]/wiwin or Grand Medicine Society of the Ojibwa by W.J. Hoffman
• The Mound Builders by George Bryce
• Mound-Builders by W.J. Smyth
• The Mountain Chant: a Navajo Ceremony by Washington Matthews
• Navaho Houses by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Navajo Silversmiths by Washington Matthews
• Navajo Weavers by Washington Matthews
• The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis, 1907
• Notes on Certain Maya and Mexicaon Manuscripts by Cyrus Thomas
• Omaha Dwellings, Furniture, and Implements by James Owen Dorsey
• On the Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data by J.W. Powell
• Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States by William Henry Holmes
• Prehistoric Textile Fabrics of the United States, Derived from Impressions on Pottery by William Henry Holmes
• The Religious Life of the Zuni Child by Mrs. Tilly E. Stevenson
• The Repair of Casa Grande Ruin, Arizona, in 1891 by Cosmos Mindeleff
• Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay D'Espoir
• Representation of the Deities of the Maya Manuscripts by Paul Schellhas
• The Seminole Indians of Florida by Clay MacCauley
• Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes by Garrick Mallery
• The Siouan Indians, a Preliminary Sketch by W. J. McGee, 1897
• Siouan Sociology by James Owen Dorsey
• A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff
• A Study of Pueblo Pottery by Frank Hamliton Chusing
• A Study of the Textile Art in Its Relation to the Development of Form and Ornament by William H. Holmes
• Thirty Indian Legends by Margaret Bemister
• Three Years on the Plains, Observatiosn of Indians 1867-1870 by Edmund B. Tuttle
• Throwing-Sticks int he National Museum by Otis T. Mason
• Traditions of the North American Indians: Being a Second and Ervised Edition of Tales of an Indian Camp by James Athearn Jones
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara K. Bayliss
• The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Hattie Greene Lockert
• Wyandot Government: a Short Study of Tribal Society by J.W. Powell
• Zuni Fetiches by Frank Hamlton Cushing

Pacific Islands

• The Mafulu, Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert W. Williamson, 1912
• The Pagan Tribes of Borneo by Charles Hose and William McDougall
• Through Central Borneo by Carl Lumholtz
• Wanderings among South Sea Savages by H. Wilfrid Walker
• White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien

Philippine

• Anting-Antin Stories and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos by Sargent Kayme
• The Bontac Igorot
• The Great White Tribe in Filipinia by Paul T. Gilbert
• The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Corenelius Willcox
• Negritos of Zambales by William Allan Reed, 1904
• Philippine Folk Tales, compiled by Mabel Cook Cole
• Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao by Fay-Cooper Cole

Roman

• On the Excavation of the Roman Baths at Bath
• Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Magoff

Russian

• Tent Life in Siberia by George Kennan

South American

• Tales of Giants from Brazil by Elsie Spicer Eells