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Garnered sheaves : essays, addresses, and reviews

xi, 538 pages ; 22 cm Reprint of the 1931 edition Includes bibliographical references and index Essays. On certain burial customs as illustrative of the primitive theory of the soul -- The Prytaneum, the temple of Vesta, the vestals, perpetual fires -- Note on the early Italian huts -- Taboo -- The language of animals -- Some popular superstitions of the ancients -- A folk-lore medley -- A suggestion as to the origin of gender in language -- On some ceremonies of the central Australian tribes -- The cursing of Venizelos -- The killing of the Khazar kings -- The scope and method of mental anthr…