This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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First published in 1922 as the second edition of a 1920 original, this book attempts ‘to put into a biological setting the system of psycho-therapy which came to be generally…

W. H. R. Rivers, who has been called 'the founder of the modern study of social organization', exerted an immense influence on his contemporaries and successors.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part of the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

First published in 1914, W. H. R. Rivers’ hugely influential study was the first to effectively demonstrate the close connection between methods of denoting relationship or kinship and forms of…