Medicine, magic and religion : The Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal college of Physicians of London in 1915 an 1916 / W.H.R. Rivers ; with a preface by G. Elliot Smith

Includes bibliographical references and index

This volume is one of the pioneering texts of anthropology. Rivers' experience as a psychiatrist provided insight to the rationality of primitive belief systems and practices, and allowed a new understanding of less developed cultures.

Originally published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner, 1924