British ethnology and anthropology
Alfred Cruikshank Haddon
1855 – 1940
Alfred Cort Haddon was a British anthropologist and ethnologist at Cambridge who led the landmark 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait, pioneering systematic methods in ethnology alongside W.H.R. Rivers and Charles Seligman. His fieldwork documented indigenous cosmologies, ritual practices, and material culture that formed essential comparative data for the Victorian study of myth and primitive religion.
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Folk Magic
Folk magic texts and practical traditions covering charms, cures, household rites, prayers, talismans, and vernacular magical practice.
Comparative Religion
Comparative religion texts on ritual, myth, sacrifice, belief, ancient religion, and cross-cultural theories of sacred practice.
Comparative Mythology
Comparative mythology texts on gods, hero cycles, symbolic patterns, classical myth, Indo-European myth, and cross-cultural mythic structures.
Anthropology of Religion
Anthropological texts on ritual, animism, totemism, taboo, early religion, culture, and theories of belief formation.
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