Anthropological essays presented to Edward Burnett Tylor in honour of his 75th birthday, Oct. 2, 1907

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"The responsibility for the collection of the essays was confided to the [editorial committee: W.H.R. Rivers, R.R. Marett, N.W. Thomas] but the actual work of editing the volume and seeing it through the press has lain almost entirely in the ... hands of Mr. Thomas."--P. [v] Edward Burnett Tylor, by A. Lang.--Balfour, H. The fire-piston.--Crawley, A.E. Exogamy and the mating of cousins.--Cunningham, D.J. The Australian forehead.--Farnell, L.R. The place of the 'sonder-götter' in Greek polytheism.--Frazer, J.G. Folk-lore in the Old Testament.--Haddon, A.C. The religion of theTorres Straits Islanders.--Hartland, E.S. Concerning the rite at the temple of Mylitta.--Land, A. Australian problems.--Marett, R.R. Is taboo a negative magic?--Myers, C.S. The ethnological study of music.--Myres, J.L. The Sigymae of Herodotus.--Read, C.H. A museum of anthropology.--Rhÿs, Sir J. The nine witches of Gloucester.--Ridgeway, W. Who were Dorians? --Rivers, W.H.R. On the origin of the classificatory system of relationships.--Seligmann, C.G., and Joyce, T.A. On prehistoric objects in British New Guinea.--Thomas, N.W. The origin of exogamy.--Thomas, A. The secret of the verge watch.--Westermarck, E. L'âr, or the transference of conditional curses in Morocco.--A bibliography of Edward Burnett Tylor, by B.W. Freire-Marreco (p. [375]-409)
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