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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Comparative Religion
Comparative religion texts on ritual, myth, sacrifice, belief, ancient religion, and cross-cultural theories of sacred practice.
Folklore Studies
Folklore studies texts on folk tales, fairy belief, superstition, regional customs, oral tradition, and the collection of vernacular belief.
Anthropology of Religion
Anthropological texts on ritual, animism, totemism, taboo, early religion, culture, and theories of belief formation.
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