Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology Primitive Ritual and Belief: An Anthropological Essay, Book 4, (Hardcover)

This book, first published in 1917, investigates the rites and beliefs of people who had remained in a 'primitive' state of culture throughout the ages. Special attention was paid to the ritual and mythology of the Aborigines of Australia, in what was then some of the first studies of their beliefs.