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... European peasant using his hatchet and his hoe , see his food boiling or roasting over the log - fire , observe the exact place which beer holds in his calculation of happiness , hear his tale of the ghost in the nearest haunted house ...
... European peasant using his hatchet and his hoe , see his food boiling or roasting over the log - fire , observe the exact place which beer holds in his calculation of happiness , hear his tale of the ghost in the nearest haunted house ...
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... European may find among the Greenlanders or Maoris many a trait for reconstructing the picture of his . own primitive ancestors . Next comes the problem of the Origin of Language . Obscure as many parts of this problem still remain ...
... European may find among the Greenlanders or Maoris many a trait for reconstructing the picture of his . own primitive ancestors . Next comes the problem of the Origin of Language . Obscure as many parts of this problem still remain ...
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... European colonies . The relation of the sexes among many savage tribes is more healthy than among the richer classes of the Mohammedan world . As a supreme authority of govern- ment , the savage councils of chiefs and elders compare ...
... European colonies . The relation of the sexes among many savage tribes is more healthy than among the richer classes of the Mohammedan world . As a supreme authority of govern- ment , the savage councils of chiefs and elders compare ...
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... European district.1 Such tribes may count as the ' blameless Ethiopians ' of the modern world , and from them an important lesson may be learnt . Ethno- graphers who seek in modern savages types of the remotely ancient human race at ...
... European district.1 Such tribes may count as the ' blameless Ethiopians ' of the modern world , and from them an important lesson may be learnt . Ethno- graphers who seek in modern savages types of the remotely ancient human race at ...
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... European standard , but not a savage life . The Gauchos of the South American Pampas , a mixed European and Indian race of equestrian herdsmen , are described as sitting about on ox - skulls , making broth in horns with hot cinders ...
... European standard , but not a savage life . The Gauchos of the South American Pampas , a mixed European and Indian race of equestrian herdsmen , are described as sitting about on ox - skulls , making broth in horns with hot cinders ...
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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