September 20, 2010

Dying for the Gods: Human Sacrifice in Iron Age and Roman Europe – by: Miranda Aldhouse Green (2001, 2006)

I strongly suspect that capital punishment is, from an anthropological perspective, a modern form of human sacrifice exhibiting all the elements of the same in history. I ordered this book in order to investigate this suspicion. Green seems to, albeit unwittingly, support my suspicions.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...