Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... IMITATIVE LANGUAGE ( continued ) . Imitative Words - Human actions named from sound - Animals ' names from cries , & c . - Musical Instruments - Sounds reproduced - Words modified to adapt sound to sense - Reduplication — Graduation of ...
... IMITATIVE LANGUAGE ( continued ) . Imitative Words - Human actions named from sound - Animals ' names from cries , & c . - Musical Instruments - Sounds reproduced - Words modified to adapt sound to sense - Reduplication — Graduation of ...
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... imitative faculty , he points out the analogies in methods of warfare among animals and men , classifying as defensive appliances hides , solid plates , jointed plates , scales ; as offensive weapons , the piercing , striking , serrated ...
... imitative faculty , he points out the analogies in methods of warfare among animals and men , classifying as defensive appliances hides , solid plates , jointed plates , scales ; as offensive weapons , the piercing , striking , serrated ...
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... imitative element so import- ant in the formation of language.1 When we look into the early development of the art of counting , and see the evidence of tribe after tribe having obtained numerals through the primitive stage of counting ...
... imitative element so import- ant in the formation of language.1 When we look into the early development of the art of counting , and see the evidence of tribe after tribe having obtained numerals through the primitive stage of counting ...
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... labour on even the lowest and most trifling facts of ethnography , of wasting their hours in the satisfaction of a frivolous curiosity . CHAPTER V. EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE . Element of directly EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF SURVIVALS . 159.
... labour on even the lowest and most trifling facts of ethnography , of wasting their hours in the satisfaction of a frivolous curiosity . CHAPTER V. EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE . Element of directly EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF SURVIVALS . 159.
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... IMITATIVE LANGUAGE . Element of directly expressive Sound in Language - Test by independent correspondence in distinct languages - Constituent processes of Lan- guage - Gesture - Expression of feature , & c . - Emotional Tone - Articu ...
... IMITATIVE LANGUAGE . Element of directly expressive Sound in Language - Test by independent correspondence in distinct languages - Constituent processes of Lan- guage - Gesture - Expression of feature , & c . - Emotional Tone - Articu ...
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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