bookshelf

🏺

Archaeology & Anthropology

Step into a world where ruined temples, tribal memory, seafaring expeditions, and ancient rites all whisper clues about who we are and where we came from. This bookshelf ranges from the myths of magic and serpent worship to firsthand journeys across North America, Africa, the Pacific, and the ancient Mediterranean, tracing humanity through custom, language, belief, and buried history. It’s a grand expedition into the origins of culture—part detective story, part voyage, part time machine.

1831 Audiobooks

A New Voyage to Carolina Containing the exact description and natural history of that country; together with the present state thereof; and a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd thro' several nations of Indians; giving a particular account of their customs, manners, etc.

by John Lawson

The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula

by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

Totem und Tabu Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker

by Sigmund Freud

A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.

by Roger Williams

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II.

by John L. Stephens

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I.

by John L. Stephens

Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea

by Bronislaw Malinowski

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

by Faxian

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 301-398

by James Mooney

Ancient society : or, Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery, through barbarism to civilization

by Lewis Henry Morgan

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

Canyon de Chelly: The Story of Its Ruins and People

by Zorro A. Bradley

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

by Alfred Russel Wallace

The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-95, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 73-198

by Cosmos Mindeleff

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape

by Robert Knox

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300

by Walter James Hoffman

The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan

by Carl Lumholtz

The science of fairy tales : an inquiry into fairy mythology

by Edwin Sidney Hartland

The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field

by Hugh Miller

Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall

by Robert Stephen Hawker

The Lenape Stone; or, The Indian and the Mammoth

by Henry C. Mercer

Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians: An Indian Interpretation

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

The story of Switzerland

by Lina Hug, Richard Stead

The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland.

by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought

by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story

by Waheenee, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

Maori Religion and Mythology Illustrated by Translations of Traditions, Karakia, &c., to Which Are Added Notes on Maori Tenure of Land

by Edward Shortland

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4

by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Etimología de los Nombres de Razas de Filipinas

by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

El Folk-lore Filipino (Tomo I)

by Isabelo de los Reyes y Florentino

Versuch einer Ethnographie der Philippinen

by Ferdinand Blumentritt

Relatorio de uma viagem ás terras do Changamira

by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada

Custom and Myth

by Andrew Lang

The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes

by Strabo

Contribucion Para El Estudio de los Antiguos Alfabetos Filipinos

by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Der Unterkiefer des Homo Heidelbergensis: Aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg

by Otto Schoetensack

Transhimalaja: Löytöjä ja seikkailuja Tibetissä. 2 (of 2)

by Sven Anders Hedin

A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations

by Samuel Hearne

Von Tripolis nach Alexandrien - 2. Band

by Gerhard Rohlfs

The Evolution of Man

by Ernst Haeckel

Catalogo de los Objetos Etnologicos y Arqueologicos Exhibidos por la Expedición Hemenway

by Jesse Walter Fewkes, Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Spain) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, United States. Commission to the Madrid Exposition (1892- )