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§ I Three series under this roof 3 volumes now in print · Click any cover to read more

The same humanistic shelf, three editorial entrances. Fundamenta returns foundational texts to print. Officina commissions new work from working scholars. Translatio brings into English what was first written elsewhere. Alongside them, Classics of Childhood gathers the founding works of child study.

The works that founded the modern study of religion, ritual, society, and the imagination of death — reissued in clean editions, newly typeset, with a fresh editorial apparatus written by working scholars.

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of Death, Sir James G. Frazer

Vol I.01 · Fundamenta

The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead

Frazer's comparative study of cultures and the afterlife.

Sir James G. FrazerIntroduction by Mary Beard

1854, 1941 · UK

1913 / 2024Out of stock · $48

Vol I.02 · Fundamenta

The Crowd and the Public

A methodological and sociological study.

Robert E. ParkIntroduction by Andrew Abbott

1864, 1944 · US

1904 / 2024Out of stock · $38

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Émile Durkheim

Vol I.03 · Fundamenta

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Durkheim's last major work, on the social origin of the sacred.

Émile DurkheimIntroduction by Karen E. Fields

1858, 1917 · France

1912 / 2024Out of stock · $58

The founding texts of child study, on how children imagine, speak, fear, reason about right and wrong, and make art. Foundational works, enduring questions, a fuller picture of childhood.

No. 01 · Classics of Childhood

Studies of Childhood

Imagination, language, fear, morality and art in the young child.

James SullyNew edition with corrections and additions

1842, 1923 · UK

1895 / 2026Forthcoming

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