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  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K Chesterton
    'Mr. Chesterton has a quite unusual power of seeing the obvious, and it is quite true that many learned men seem to have lost that power.'-The Times Literary Supplement (1925)The Everlasting Man (1925) was written by G. K. Chesterton as an apologia for Christianity. Many believe Chesterton wrote it to refute H. G. Wells’s book, Outline of History, in which Wells claimed our cur...
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    13,61 €

  • The Everlasting Man
    G. K Chesterton
    'Mr. Chesterton has a quite unusual power of seeing the obvious, and it is quite true that many learned men seem to have lost that power.'-The Times Literary Supplement (1925)The Everlasting Man (1925) was written by G. K. Chesterton as an apologia for Christianity. Many believe Chesterton wrote it to refute H. G. Wells’s book, Outline of History, in which Wells claimed our cur...
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    26,63 €

  • Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
    Francis Galton
    'The moral and intellectual wealth of a nation largely consists in the multifarious variety of the gifts of the men who compose it . . .'-Sir Francis Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its DevelopmentInquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development (1907) by Francis Galton is a landmark work in the field of anthropology. In it, Galton coined the term 'eugenics,' arguing f...
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    19,77 €

  • Tattooing Among Civilized People
    Robert Fletcher
    'Not one great country can be named, from the Polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.' -Charles Darwin, The Descent of ManTattooing Among Civilized People (1882) by Robert Fletcher is a presentation the author made to the Anthropological Society of Washington. Given the purpose of the organization, Fletcher’s pap...
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    10,11 €

  • The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
    Friedrich Engels
    The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan (German: Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats) is an 1884 historical materialist treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient Society (1877). The book is an early anthropological ...
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    16,47 €

  • Ancient Society
    Lewis H Morgan
    'Men make progress through ’the gradual evolution of their mental and moral powers through experience, and of their protracted struggle with opposing obstacles while winning their way to civilization.’'-Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient SocietyAncient Society (1877) by Lewis Morgan is a sequel to the author’s previous book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (al...
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    27,65 €

  • Ancient Society
    Lewis H. Morgan / Lewis HMorgan
    Renowned anthropologist Lewis H. Morgan examines the origins and history of humanity, sharing abundant insights on the conditions of primitive society.Of particular interest to Morgan is the gradual process by which humans organized into civil societies. Examining a range of contrasting civilizations, from the Mayans to the Iroquois to the Romans, the author attempts to arrive ...
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    20,68 €

  • Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
    Lewis H Morgan
    'Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity remains a towering monument... Morgan can never be ignored by the student of kinship.'-Robert Lowie, early 20th century American anthropologistIn Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1871), Lewis Morgan described his fieldwork among Native American and the kinship systems of over 100 cultures that he studied. Its key ...
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    30,11 €

  • Crania Aegyptiaca
    Samuel George Morton
    Samuel Morton studied the excavated remains of ancient Egyptians to gain insight into their origins and relation to other ancient ethnic groups, and published these results.When Morton released his enquiry in 1844, new archaeological finds from Egypt resulted in a surge of interest from scholars and historians. Together with skeletal and mummified remains, a great number of stu...
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    15,07 €