With this colorful compilation of oral traditions, readers can savor tales as they were told by their aboriginal narrators — from reverent recountings of the origins of the world and human life, to stories about the roots of religious and social customs, to fanciful and humorous animal fables.
The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon One of the most influential books on social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive in the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd. A must-read for students, politicians, and investors.
Tattooing in the Marquesas by Willowdean Chatterson Handy Definitive source on intricate tattoos of Polynesia's Marquesas Islands offers a rare glimpse of a vanished art. Its 38 plates of black-and-white drawings and photographs provide an unusually complete and intimate record.
The Holy Grail: History, Legend and Symbolism by A. E. Waite The famed scholar and occultist draws upon Malory's Morte D'Arthur and other medieval sources to reveal the Grail quest's true meaning, both in symbolic and in historic terms.
The Mexican Kickapoo Indians by Felipe A. Latorre, Dolores L. Latorre Fascinating anthropological study of a group of Kickapoo Indians who left their Wisconsin homeland for Mexico over a century ago. "...an excellent work..." — American Indian Quarterly. 26 illustrations. Map. Index.
Teutonic Mythology Vol. 1 by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass Most exhaustive compendium of German and Norse mythology. Volume I includes: God, Worship, Temples, Priests, Other Gods, Goddesses, Condition of Gods, Heroes, Wise-women.
