Books on Topic: 'Anthropology'

Anarchism and Other Essays is a 1910 essay collection by Emma Goldman, first published by Mother Earth Publishing. The essays outline Goldman's anarch...

Buddhism and Buddhists in China is an anthropological text describing Buddhism as practiced in China at the beginning of the 20th Century. Interesting...

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London made up of his firsthand account of life in the East End of London.

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, re...

The Book of the Dead is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE...

This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer, Euripide...

Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable hotbed of cr...

Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richa...

Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish family in Jeru...

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule is a book written by Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1909. In it he expresses his views on Swaraj, modern civilization, mechanis...

Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addic...

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearabl...

These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United Sta...

A pamphlet written by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman shortly before their deportation from the US in 1919.

In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constit...

Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Ce...

This is a very readable scientific account of Swearing and Cursing in the English Language. Not only is an enlightening historical account given, but...

Why crowds do the things they do? 'The Crowd' is highly dangerous instructions for the instrumentalization and manipulation of humans.

Oesterley describes the beliefs that pre-Christian Hebrews and Semites held regarding the afterlife and the immortal nature of humans. The nature, for...

The case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living...

This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics.

We are presented both rural and urban points of view, struggles for survival, varying district relationships, the effect of lynching, power struggles,...

Different superstitions and oral traditions past down. Many versions from different states. Most categories covered from babies, marriage, and death.

"There may seem to be a disappointing lack of prophesy in a book avowedly dealing with the future; but since I believe the women’s movement to be a se...