Anthropology Books

The magic of jewels and charms

George Frederick Kunz

Jewels, gems, stones, superstitions and astrological lore are all so interwoven in history that to treat of either of them alone would mean to break the chain of association linking them one with the ..

The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories

George Bird Grinnell

In transcribing stories such as these, care must be used to take down just what the narrator says. The stories must be reproduced as they are told; otherwise they lose that primitive flavor which is o..

The Game of Go - The National Game of Japan

Arthur Smith

This book is intended as a practical guide to the game of Go. It is especially designed to assist students of the game who have acquired a smattering of it in some way and who wish to investigate it f..

The Velocipede - Its History, Varieties, and Practice

J. T. Goddard

It is the design of this little work, not only to give a few simple directions to guide the beginner, but to give the history of the machine from its first origin, to treat accurately and impartially ..

Drinks of the World

John Ashton

We have generally avoided the profane use of trade or professional jargon, too often the outcome of ignorance, pretence, and affectation, such as “full,” “fruity,” “smooth on palate,” “round in the mo..

Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources

Anton Von Schiefner

Towards the end of the ninth century, continues Schlagintweit, Buddhism was strongly opposed by a ruler who “commanded all temples and monasteries to be demolished, the images to be destroyed, and the..

Ancient Rome and Modern America

Guglielmo Ferrero

The object of the essays collected in this volume, with the exception of three which recount three curious episodes in Roman history, is the investigation of the most important differences between the..

West African Folk-Tales

W. H. Barker

In presenting to the public these stories based on the folk-lore of the Gold Coast peoples, it seems necessary to say something in general terms of the economic and social development of the colony in..