Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... similar phenomena of culture , recurring in different parts of the world , actually supply incidental proof of their own authenticity . Some years since , a question which brings out this point was put to me by a great historian- ' How ...
... similar phenomena of culture , recurring in different parts of the world , actually supply incidental proof of their own authenticity . Some years since , a question which brings out this point was put to me by a great historian- ' How ...
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... similar facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way . Experience leads the student after a while to expect and find that the phenomena of culture , as resulting from ...
... similar facts in various districts of culture . Now the most important facts of ethnography are vouched for in this way . Experience leads the student after a while to expect and find that the phenomena of culture , as resulting from ...
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... similar attempt to trace the development of certain prominent Rites and Cere- monies - customs so full of instruction as to the inmost powers of religion , whose outward expression and practical result they are . In these investigations ...
... similar attempt to trace the development of certain prominent Rites and Cere- monies - customs so full of instruction as to the inmost powers of religion , whose outward expression and practical result they are . In these investigations ...
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... similar throughout the existence of human society , and that we may fairly judge from its known historic course what its prehistoric course may have been , is a theory clearly entitled to precedence as a fundamental principle of ...
... similar throughout the existence of human society , and that we may fairly judge from its known historic course what its prehistoric course may have been , is a theory clearly entitled to precedence as a fundamental principle of ...
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... similar attempt in Ethnology . By long experience of the course of human society , the principle of development in culture has become so in- grained in our philosophy that ethnologists , of whatever school , hardly doubt but that ...
... similar attempt in Ethnology . By long experience of the course of human society , the principle of development in culture has become so in- grained in our philosophy that ethnologists , of whatever school , hardly doubt but that ...
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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