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Patterns of Culture
Observations concerning the distinction of ranks in society
Neanderthal
Structures élémentaires de la parenté
Lectures on the early history of institutions
Facing Mount Kenya
The hunting peoples
The Function of dance in human society
Victims of progress
In search of the primitive
Children of their fathers
Primitive society
Origins of education among primitive peoples
Primitive classification
Sex and repression in savage society
The origin and development of the moral ideas
The Plains of Passage
Customs and cultures
The making of mankind
The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man
Primitive social organization
The mystic rose
The institutions of primitive society
Habitat, economy and society
Dissertations on early law and custom
An introduction to cultural anthropology
Aboriginal women, sacred and profane
The riddle of the sphinx
East African age-class systems
The people of Alor
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