Dialogue among cellmates : Lucretius, Horace, and Lewis Henry Morgan / Daniel Noah Moses -- The tinted lens of ancient society : classical history and American experience in the ethnology of Lewis Henry Morgan / Emily Varto -- Culture and classics : Edward Burnett Tylor and Romanization / Eliza Gettel -- From motherkin to the great goddess : matriarchal myth in anthropology and the classics / Cynthia Eller -- Otis T. Mason and Hippocratic environmental theory at the Smithsonian Institution in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Rebecca Futo Kennedypart -- The feast and commensal politics : ancient Greek prefigurations of aAnthropological concerns / Kevin Solez -- The anthropology of an island cult : Samothrace and the science of man in the nineteenth century / Sandra Blakely -- Arboreal animists : the (Ab)use of Roman sacred trees in early anthropology / Ailsa Hunt -- Colourblind : the use of Greek colour terminology in cultural linguistics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Melissa Funkepart -- Pinpointing Pausanias : ethnography, analogy, and autopsy / Daniel Stewart -- Marcel Mauss, the gift, and the oral theory / Thérèse A. de Vet -- The Magna Graecia of Ernesto de Martino : studying ancient and contemporary evil eye / Irene Salvo -- Anthropology and the creation of the classical other / Franco De Angelis -- Comparativism then and now / William Michael Short and Maurizio Bettini.