Victorian anthropology and comparative mythology
A.W. Buckland
1832 – 1899
Anne Walbank Buckland was a British anthropologist and ethnologist, one of the first women admitted to the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1875). Her essays, collected in Anthropological Studies (1891), examined mythology, symbolism, divination, and prehistoric religious customs, offering original theories on moon worship, sun worship, and serpent symbolism across cultures.
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