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Primitive societies

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The Oedipus complex

William N. Stephens

1962

Origin of the Family Private Property and the State

Friedrich Engels

2015

Early beliefs and their social influence

Edward Westermarck

1932

The sexual life of savages in north-western Melanesia

Bronisław Malinowski

1929

Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigenthums und des Staats

Friedrich Engels

1884 ★ 4.5

From the South Seas

Margaret Mead

1939

Art in Nonliterate Societies

J. A. Abramson

2000

Patterns of culture

Ruth Benedict

1959

Primitive man as philosopher

Paul Radin

1927

The origin and development of the moral ideas

Edward Westermarck

1906

Life before Genesis, a conclusion

David H. Turner

1987

The Cave Girl

Edgar Rice Burroughs

1925

Ancient law, its connection with the early history of society and its relaton to modern ideas

Dante J. Scala, Henry James Sumner Maine

1861

The noble savage

Hoxie Neale Fairchild

1928

The twilight of the primitive

Lewis Cotlow

1971

Daughter of the Red Deer

Joan Wolf

1991

Ancient Society (The John Harvard Library)

Lewis Henry Morgan, Lewis Morgan, Lewis H. Morgan et al.

1877

The Other Side of Eden

Hugh Brody

2001

Both sides of Buka Passage

Beatrice Blackwood

1979

Lost in Shangri-la

Mitchell Zuckoff

2011 ★ 4.2

The primitive world and its transformations

Redfield, Robert

1953

The Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel

1980 ★ 4.1

Excavations at Star Carr

Grahame Clark

1971

Elements of social organization

Raymond William Firth

1961

Black Mischief

Evelyn Waugh

1946

Savage childhood

Dudley Kidd

1906

Our primitive contemporaries

George Peter Murdock

1934

Types of social structure in eastern Indonesia

F. A. E. van Wouden

1968

Structure and function in primitive society

A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

1968

The Valley of Horses

Jean M. Auel

1982 ★ 4.3

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