Anthropology eBooks
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians
Anthropology, by Elias Johnson1881 comprehensive study that questions white prejudices. "In all the early histories of the American Colonies, in the stories of Indian life and the delineations of Indian character, these children of nature are represented as savages and barbarians, and in the mind of a large portion of the community the sentiment still prevails that they were blood-thirsty, revengeful, and merciless, justly a...
Maximilian in Mexico. A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867
Anthropology, by Sara Yorke StevensonSara Yorke Stevenson (Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson) (February 19, 1847 – November 14, 1921) was a prominent American archæologist and female rights activist.Of all the English language memoirs of the Second Empire / French Intervention, Sara Yorke Stevenson's Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862 - 1867 is the most lucid, informed, and balanced. That said...
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves
Anthropology, by Anonymous.The slave narrative is a literary form which grew out of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada and Caribbean nations. Some six thousand former slaves from North America and the Caribbean gave accounts of their lives during the 18th and 19th centuries, with about 150 narratives published as separate books or pamphlets. In...
The Discovery of Witches
Anthropology, by Matthew HopkinsThe Controversy concerning the supposed discovery of witches. Legal documments
The Enemies of Books
Anthropology, by William BladesFire, water and humans can destoy books. How they are protected and restored.
The myths and legends of Ancient Greece
Anthropology, by E. M. BerensThe author sets before the reader a lifelike picture of the deities of classical times as they were conceived and worshipped by the ancients themselves, and thereby to awaken in the minds of young students a desire to become more intimately acquainted with the noble productions of classical antiquity. The aim was to render the legends, which form the second portion of this work, a picture of old...
The origins of the species
Anthropology, by Charles Darwin.Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species...
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