Tracing Roots: 12 Classic Anthropology Books on Global Cultures
Classic Studies of Global Cultures, Ritual, Prehistory, and Human DiversityBy Walter Hough, Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt, Robert Wood Williamson, George Thornton Emmons, William Boyd Dawkins, Fay-Cooper Cole, Henry Baudesson, James Anson Farrer, Thomas Edward Pickett, Edith A. How, Paul Broca, A. F. R. Wollaston
Length83h 54m
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Tracing Roots gathers twelve foundational yet historically situated works that map global cultures through ethnographic description, antiquarian inquiry, archaeology, travel observation, and early physical anthropology. Its varied prose—catalogue, field report, comparative essay, and speculative synthesis—reveals both the breadth of anthropology's formative ambitions and the limits of its inherited classificatory frameworks. Studies of material culture, ritual, social organization, migration, and human difference offer especially revealing points of contact across the volume. The contributors include museum ethnologists, archaeologists, explorers, naturalists, antiquarians, and influential early anthropologists whose work emerged amid nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imperial expansion, scientific professionalization, and debates over evolution and race. Read together, their writings illuminate the disciplinary conditions under which "global culture" became an object of comparative study. Their differing methods and regional emphases also expose tensions between close observation, collecting practices, broad theory, and the unequal encounters that shaped much early anthropological knowledge. This collection is recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to anthropology's intellectual prehistory and contested foundations. It invites critical engagement with multiple styles of cultural interpretation while providing valuable historical evidence of how scholarly categories were formed. Students, researchers, and general readers alike will find in these converging and conflicting voices a rich dialogue about culture, evidence, and human diversity.
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GenrePsychology, Literary Classics
Length83 hrs 54 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Primitive Manners and Customs
2INTRODUCTION.
3II. SAVAGE MODES OF PRAYER.
4III. SOME SAVAGE PROVERBS.
5V. SAVAGE POLITICAL LIFE.
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6VII. EARLY WEDDING CUSTOMS.
7VIII. THE FAIRY-LORE OF SAVAGES.
8IX. COMPARATIVE FOLK-LORE.
9Footnote
10Grave-mounds and Their Contents
11Grave-mounds and Their Contents
12INTRODUCTION.
13CHAPTER III.
14CHAPTER V.
15CHAPTER VI.
16CHAPTER VII.
17CHAPTER IX.
18CHAPTER X.
19CHAPTER XII.
20CHAPTER XIV.
21CHAPTER XV.
22Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea
23Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea
24PREFACE
25CHAPTER II
26CHAPTER IV
27CHAPTER VI
28CHAPTER VIII
29CHAPTER X
30CHAPTER XII
31CHAPTER XIV
32CHAPTER XVI
33CHAPTER XVII
34APPENDIX A
35APPENDIX B
36APPENDIX C
37Indo-China and Its Primitive People
38Indo-China and Its Primitive People
39FOREWORD
40BOOK I AMONG THE MOÏ (pt. 1)
41BOOK I AMONG THE MOÏ (pt. 2)
42BOOK I AMONG THE MOÏ (pt. 3)
43BOOK II THE CHAM (pt. 1)
44BOOK II THE CHAM (pt. 2)
45Footnote
46The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea
47The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea
48With Illustrations and Map Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin’s Street, London 1912
49Introductory
50Dress and Ornament
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