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History of Anthropology
Historical anthropology and comparative religion texts preserved with explicit context for period categories, evidence, and superseded theories.
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Texts
Myth and Science — Tito VignoliTito Vignoli's complete 1885 third edition on perception, myth-making, cognition, dreams, hallucination, and the historical relation of myth and science.Primitive Art — Franz BoasFranz Boas's complete 1927 textual study of formal, representative, symbolic, stylistic, literary, musical, and dance arts in cultural and historical context.Primitive Culture — Edward B. Tylor — Volumes I–IIEdward B. Tylor's complete two-volume 1920 sixth edition on cultural development, survivals, language, mythology, animism, ritual, and anthropology.Religions of Primitive Peoples — Daniel G. BrintonDaniel G. Brinton's complete 1897 lecture volume on comparative religion, preserved with explicit framing for its superseded anthropological terminology.