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... America . The matter , however , remains substantially the same . A few passages have been amplified or altered for greater clearness , and on some points additional or improved evidence has been put in . Among the anthropologists whose ...
... America . The matter , however , remains substantially the same . A few passages have been amplified or altered for greater clearness , and on some points additional or improved evidence has been put in . Among the anthropologists whose ...
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... America beside the Zulu of South Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in Hawkesworth's Voyages , ' one set of savages is like another . ' How true a generalization this ...
... America beside the Zulu of South Africa . As Dr. Johnson contemptuously said when he had read about Patagonians and South Sea Islanders in Hawkesworth's Voyages , ' one set of savages is like another . ' How true a generalization this ...
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... America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the whole world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of tobacco - smoking and the sailor's hammock . It is a matter worthy ...
... America carried with them the use of the gun and the iron hatchet , while in return the whole world received not only maize , potatoes , and turkeys , but the habit of tobacco - smoking and the sailor's hammock . It is a matter worthy ...
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... America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other , arranging the rest of mankind between these limits according as they correspond more closely to ...
... America practically settles a standard by simply placing its own nations at one end of the social series and savage tribes at the other , arranging the rest of mankind between these limits according as they correspond more closely to ...
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... America - seems to fit not so well with degradation from a high as with survival from a low civilization . The Irish and the Hebrideans had been for ages under the influence of comparatively high civilization , which nevertheless may ...
... America - seems to fit not so well with degradation from a high as with survival from a low civilization . The Irish and the Hebrideans had been for ages under the influence of comparatively high civilization , which nevertheless may ...
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Abipones Africa ages Amazulu ancient animals animistic appears Archæology Archip Aryan Asien barbaric Bastian beasts belief belong body called century Charlevoix Chinook Jargon civilization connexion creatures culture custom Dayaks dead death described divination doctrine dreams early earth English European evidence express fact fancy father Fiji fingers funeral ghost Greek Grimm hand heaven Hine-nui-te-po Hist human hyæna idea imitative Indian interjectional Islands Journ Karens Khonds language legend living lower races Malay man's mankind Maui Max Müller meaning mediæval Mensch mind modern Moon myth mythic mythology nations native nature nature-myth night numerals Oestl Ojibwa origin philosophy Plin primitive Quichua quinary relation religion remarkable rite rude Sanskrit savage tribes Schoolcraft seems sneeze soul sound spirit stone story survival theory things thought tion Tonga traced Veddas verb vigesimal vowels Waitz words Wuttke Yoruba Zealand Zulu