The Study of ManG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898 - 410 pages |
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Page xviii
... practices which is known as folk - lore , comes under the designation of religion as that term is understood by anthropologists . Archæology tries to reconstruct the ancient history of man from the remains of the past which are brought ...
... practices which is known as folk - lore , comes under the designation of religion as that term is understood by anthropologists . Archæology tries to reconstruct the ancient history of man from the remains of the past which are brought ...
Page xix
... practices and beliefs of our forefathers , for in an attenuated form many of these actually persist amongst us . By appealing to comparative custom and re- ligion we can often form a pretty good idea as to what those actions really ...
... practices and beliefs of our forefathers , for in an attenuated form many of these actually persist amongst us . By appealing to comparative custom and re- ligion we can often form a pretty good idea as to what those actions really ...
Page xxiv
... practice . The courting , marriage , and funeral ceremonies of our savage forefathers are re- peated like a faint and degraded echo in village green or school playground . We leave the child and return to the folk whom I have already ...
... practice . The courting , marriage , and funeral ceremonies of our savage forefathers are re- peated like a faint and degraded echo in village green or school playground . We leave the child and return to the folk whom I have already ...
Page 40
... practice among allied tribes on the mainland of Europe ; but the same authors are careful to point out how lightly these half - nomad tribes were attached to the soil , and how they were continually on the move . We may therefore take ...
... practice among allied tribes on the mainland of Europe ; but the same authors are careful to point out how lightly these half - nomad tribes were attached to the soil , and how they were continually on the move . We may therefore take ...
Page 134
... practice as soon as man dis- covered that efficiency was increased by reducing the long frictional surface , and that the weight was lessened . Herr Stephan , the late enlightened Postmaster - General of the German Empire , to whom we ...
... practice as soon as man dis- covered that efficiency was increased by reducing the long frictional surface , and that the weight was lessened . Herr Stephan , the late enlightened Postmaster - General of the German Empire , to whom we ...
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A. C. Haddon ancient Anth anthropology Aryan Australia Badagas Beddoe block-wheel blond boys brachycephalic Brahmans breadth bridge British Islands brown bull-roarer called cat's cradle century cephalic cephalic index character chariot Collignon colour Corrèze cranial index craniology Creuse Culin custom dance dark district dolichocephals Dordogne dress E. B. Tylor England English Europe evidence evolution example fair fair lady Folk-lore France girls Gomme hand Haute-Vienne head inches Inst Ireland Irish J. G. Frazer jaunting-car Jenny Jones Journ kite kite-flying lady latter length leptorhine Malay means measurements mesorhine narrow nasal index Neolithic North nose origin Paniyans photographs platyrhine played points primitive probably race round sacred savage says side singing skull slide-car song spoke-wheels stature Stewart Culin string tion Torres Straits tribes vehicles village wheels women wood