Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... dead and to other spiritual beings , the turning to the east in worship , the purification of ceremonial or moral uncleanness by means of water or fire . Such are a few miscellaneous examples from a list of hundreds , and the ...
... dead and to other spiritual beings , the turning to the east in worship , the purification of ceremonial or moral uncleanness by means of water or fire . Such are a few miscellaneous examples from a list of hundreds , and the ...
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... dead , an account of a sorcerer's rites in making rain , a table of numerals , the conjugation of a verb , are things which each express the state of a people as to one particular point . of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers ...
... dead , an account of a sorcerer's rites in making rain , a table of numerals , the conjugation of a verb , are things which each express the state of a people as to one particular point . of culture , as truly as the tabulated numbers ...
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... dead is a survival . The simple keeping up of ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink into the sport of later generations , and ...
... dead is a survival . The simple keeping up of ancient habits is only one part of the transition from old into new and changing times . The serious business of ancient society may be seen to sink into the sport of later generations , and ...
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... dead or dying ; here survival passes into revival , as has lately happened in so remarkable a way in the history of modern spiritualism , a subject full of in- struction from the ethnographer's point of view . The study of the ...
... dead or dying ; here survival passes into revival , as has lately happened in so remarkable a way in the history of modern spiritualism , a subject full of in- struction from the ethnographer's point of view . The study of the ...
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... dead lower culture em- bedded in a living higher one , yet in many cases it would be harsh , and even untrue . For the ethnographer's pur- pose , at any rate , it is desirable to introduce such a term as ' survival , ' simply to denote ...
... dead lower culture em- bedded in a living higher one , yet in many cases it would be harsh , and even untrue . For the ethnographer's pur- pose , at any rate , it is desirable to introduce such a term as ' survival , ' simply to denote ...
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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