Animism: Chaper XVII. Literature to Which Reference is Made in This Volume

This is a reference apparatus — a combined list of periodical abbreviations and a bibliography — from an academic work in comparative religion, anthropology, or folklore, likely published in the mid-1910s based on the most recent citations. It contains no argument of its own; its purpose is to document the sources underlying a larger scholarly work. The bibliography draws on roughly 150 sources spanning ethnographic field reports, missionary accounts, mythological studies, and folklore collections, covering indigenous peoples across Australia, Melanesia, Africa, the Americas, South Asia, ancient Egypt, and classical antiquity. Heavy reliance on figures like Frazer (multiple volumes of *The Golden Bough*), Tylor (*Primitive Culture*), and Lang signals that the parent work engages with late 19th- and early 20th-century evolutionary and anthropological theories of religion. The geographic and cultural breadth, combined with sources on animism, totemism, ritual, myth, and folk belief, suggests the parent text is a comparative survey of "primitive" or world religion — likely arguing about religious origins, development, or universal patterns across cultures. There is nothing to read here independently; its value is entirely as an index to the parent work's evidentiary foundations.

Animism: Chaper XVII. Literature to Which Reference is Made in This Volume

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