Delivered as the first series of the American Lectures on the History of Religions, these lectures by the Philadelphia anthropologist set out a scientific method for studying the beliefs of small-scale societies. Brinton examines religious expression in the word, the object and the rite, with examples from the Maya, the Aztecs and South American peoples, and traces lines of development.
A landmark of early American anthropology, its terms and assumptions those of the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.