Anthropological essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honour of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907 / H. Balfour [and 19 others] ; with a bibliography by Barbara W. Freire-Marreco.

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Anthropological essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honour of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907 / H. Balfour [and 19 others] ; with a bibliography by Barbara W. Freire-Marreco. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1907.

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viii, 416 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

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Includes bibliography and index

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Edward Burnett Tylor / Andrew Lang -- The fire-piston / Henry Balfour -- The Australian forehead / D. J. Cunningham -- The place of the 'Sonder-Gotter' in Greek polytheism / L. R. Farnell -- Folk-lore in the Old Testament / J. G. Frazer -- The religion of the Torres Straits islanders / Alfred C. Haddon -- Concerning the rite at the temple of Mylitta / E. Sidney Hartland -- Australian problems / Andrews Lang -- Is taboo a negative magic? / R. R. Marett -- \The ethnological study of music / Charles S. Myers -- The sigynnae of Herodoyus: An ethnological problem of the early iron age / J. L. Myres -- A museum of anthropology / C. H. Read -- The nine witches of Gloucester / Sir John Rhys -- Who were the Dorians? / William Ridgeway -- On the origin of the classification system of relationships / W. H. R. Rivers -- On prehistoric objects in British New Guinea / C. G. Seligmann and T. A. Joyce -- The origin of exogamy / Northcote W. Thomas -- The secret of the verge watch: A study in symbolism and design / Arthur Thomson -- L'Âr, on the transference of conditional curses in Morocco / Edward Westermarck

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