the anthropology record — healing, ritual, medicine, the body, the soul
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Oceania & Australia
- 23 episodes Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea 1922
- 20 episodes Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation 1928
- 18 episodes Crime and Custom in Savage Society 1926
- 20 episodes Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education 1930
- 5 episodes Myth in Primitive Psychology 1926
- 10 episodes Social Anthropology: A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism 1926
- 19 episodes The Melanesians: Studies in their Anthropology and Folk-Lore 1891
- 19 episodes The Native Tribes of Central Australia 1899
- 14 episodes The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea 1929
The Americas
- 37 episodes Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian 1926
- 16 episodes League of the Ho-De'-No-Sau-Nee or Iroquois 1851
- 25 episodes The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 1896
- 46 episodes The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony 1904
- 29 episodes The Night Chant: A Navaho Ceremony 1902
- 104 episodes The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies 1904
- 12 episodes Zuni Fetiches 1883
Theory & Comparative
- 26 episodes Ancient Society; or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization 1877
- 15 episodes Anthropology 1923
- 9 episodes Anthropology and Modern Life 1928
- 16 episodes Anthropology: An Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization 1881
- 12 episodes Conflict and Dream 1923
- 47 episodes Elements of Folk Psychology: Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind 1916
- 13 episodes Folk-Medicine: A Chapter in the History of Culture 1883
- 20 episodes Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals 1906
- 15 episodes History of Anthropology 1910
- 10 episodes How Natives Think (Les fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures) 1926
- 25 episodes Instinct and the Unconscious: A Contribution to a Biological Theory of the Psycho-Neuroses 1920
- 24 episodes Lectures on the Religion of the Semites (First Series: The Fundamental Institutions) 1889
- 5 episodes Medicine, Magic, and Religion 1924
- 21 episodes Primitive Man as Philosopher 1927
- 15 episodes Primitive Mentality 1923
- 11 episodes Primitive Secret Societies: A Study in Early Politics and Religion 1908
- 7 episodes Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition on the Growth of Institutions 1913
- 6 episodes Religions of Primitive Peoples 1897
- 13 episodes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization 1865
- 32 episodes Sex and Repression in Savage Society 1927
- 20 episodes The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life 1915
- 8 episodes The Medicine Man: A Sociological Study of the Character and Evolution of Shamanism 1923
- 10 episodes The Mind of Primitive Man 1911
- 17 episodes The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage 1902
- 54 episodes The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas 1906–1908
- 9 episodes The Threshold of Religion 1909
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