Hutton Webster

Hutton Webster was an American historian and anthropologist of the early twentieth century. He taught social anthropology at the University of Nebraska and later at Stanford, and wrote both scholarly studies and widely used school textbooks of ancient, medieval and modern history. His research focused on the institutions of tribal societies in comparison with those of the ancient world, in books such as Primitive Secret Societies, Rest Days, a study of taboo days and the origins of the Sabbath, and the later Taboo: A Sociological Study and Magic: A Sociological Study.