Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
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Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Family structure; totemism and exogamy; class system marriage divisions; Arunta totems and myths.

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375243368X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Reproduction of the original: The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500543914
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Lang is now chiefly known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. His Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. In the preface of the Lilac Fairy Book he credits his wife with translating and transcribing most of the stories in the collections.Lang examined the origins of totemism in Social Origins (1903). In this book: The Blue Fairy Book The Red Fairy Book The Yellow Fairy Book The Violet Fairy Book The Crimson Fairy Book The Orange Fairy Book

Author: John Sloan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192866877
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential men of letters and reviewers of his day. He was a founding member and later President of the Folklore Society, and, with his wife, helped transform the taste in children's literature with their anthologized fairy stories for young people. G. K. Chesterton, paying tribute on Lang's death in 1912 to the scale and diversity of his legacy to the humanities, compared him to a 'kind of Indian god with a hundred hands'. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished correspondence and new sources of information, this first full biography of Lang documents in compelling detail his double existence as a scholar and journalist, the intellectual impact of his cross-disciplinary approach to learning and writing, and the critical controversies he courted as a writer and thinker to advance knowledge in the human sciences. The book also throws new light on Lang's personal life: on the uncomfortable legacy of his grandfather, whose notorious part in the Sutherland Clearances earlier in the century left its mark on the family; on the enduring influence on him of his early Scottish education and its generalist traditions of learning; and on his friendships with fellow writers, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rider Haggard, Edmund Gosse, Rhoda Broughton, and William Henley. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who lived one of the most productive lives in literature, sought to make knowledge available to everyone, and bridged, as no other, the university and the literary world, the proverbial 'Grub Street and the ivory tower'.

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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The modern Science of the History of Religion has attained conclusions which already possess an air of being firmly established. These conclusions may be briefly stated thus: Man derived the conception of 'spirit' or 'soul' from his reflections on the phenomena of sleep dreams death shadow and from the experiences of trance and hallucination.

Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A collection of 332 nursery rhymes grouped under such categories as "Historical," "Tales," "Proverbs," "Songs," "Games," and "Jingles."

Author: C.D. Locock
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5876905801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473349036
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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First published in 1914, "An Englishman Looks At The World" is a collection of notes and essays on various contemporary issues by English writer H. G. Wells. Contents include: "The Coming of Blériot", "My First Flight", "Off the Chain", "Of the New Reign", "Will the Empire Live?", "The Labour Unrest", "The Great State", "The Common Sense of Warfare", "The Contemporary Novel", "The Philosopher's Public Library", "About Chesterton and Belloc", etc. Highly recommended for those with an interest in early twentieth-century Europe and not to be missed by collectors of Wells' work. Herbert George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Although he was prolific in many genres, he is best remembered for his science fiction novels, including "The Time Machine "(1895), "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), and "The Invisible Man" (1897). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Author: C. Gasquoine Hartley
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752323248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Reproduction of the original: The Position of Woman in Primitive Society by C. Gasquoine Hartley