Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion Language, Art, and Custom |
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... survival in culture , the bearing of directly - expressive language and the invention of numerals on the problem of early civilization , the place of myth in the primitive history of the human mind , the development of the animistic ...
... survival in culture , the bearing of directly - expressive language and the invention of numerals on the problem of early civilization , the place of myth in the primitive history of the human mind , the development of the animistic ...
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... SURVIVAL IN CULTURE . PAGE . 1 26 Survival and Superstition - Children's games - Games of chance - Tradi- tional sayings - Nursery poems - Proverbs - Riddles - Significance and survival in Customs : sneezing - formula , rite of ...
... SURVIVAL IN CULTURE . PAGE . 1 26 Survival and Superstition - Children's games - Games of chance - Tradi- tional sayings - Nursery poems - Proverbs - Riddles - Significance and survival in Customs : sneezing - formula , rite of ...
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... SURVIVAL IN CULTURE ( continued ) . Occult Sciences - Magical powers attributed by higher to lower races- Magical processes based on Association of Ideas — Omens — Augury , & c . - Oneiromancy - Haruspication , Scapulimancy , Chiromancy ...
... SURVIVAL IN CULTURE ( continued ) . Occult Sciences - Magical powers attributed by higher to lower races- Magical processes based on Association of Ideas — Omens — Augury , & c . - Oneiromancy - Haruspication , Scapulimancy , Chiromancy ...
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... Survival - Principal topics examined in the present work . CULTURE or Civilization , taken in its wide ethnographic sense , is that complex whole which includes knowledge , belief , art , morals , law , custom , and any other ...
... Survival - Principal topics examined in the present work . CULTURE or Civilization , taken in its wide ethnographic sense , is that complex whole which includes knowledge , belief , art , morals , law , custom , and any other ...
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... survival . Such examples often lead us back to the habits of hundreds and even thousands of years ago . The ordeal of the Key and Bible , still in use , is a survival ; the Midsummer bonfire is a survival ; the Breton peasants ' All ...
... survival . Such examples often lead us back to the habits of hundreds and even thousands of years ago . The ordeal of the Key and Bible , still in use , is a survival ; the Midsummer bonfire is a survival ; the Breton peasants ' All ...
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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