This book contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the original work. The beliefs, customs and institutions of tribes in a low degree of civilization are our only clue to those of a more archaic condition no longer in existence. They are evolved from them and are the outgrowth of ideas which underlay them. When we find a belief, a custom or an institution, still more when we find a connected series of beliefs, customs and institutions, over spreading the lower culture, we may reasonably infer its root in ideas common to mankind and native to the primitive ancestral soil. The advance of even the most backward from primeval savagery has been so great that a large harvest of these ideas is not to be expected. But, the researches yielded enough, it is hoped, to afford a satisfactory solution of, among others, the problem under consideration in this volume.
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STORIES of supernatural birth may be said to have a currency as wide as the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
patrilineal reckoning, paged continuously, patrilineal peoples, actual paternity, reckon descent, fraternal polyandry, matrilineal peoples, lower culture, infant marriage, supernatural birth, barren women, exchange wives, separate hut, sterile women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesup Exped, British Columbia, East Indies, New Guinea, Robertson Smith, South America, Torres Straits, Central Brazil, North American, Ling Roth, Northern Queensland, Tully River, United Provinces, German East Africa, Southern India, The Kwakiutl, Danubian Gipsies, Meddygon Myddfai, Old Roger, Palm Sunday, Saint Nicholas, Tiga Loeroeng New!
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patrilineal reckoning, paged continuously, patrilineal peoples, actual paternity, reckon descent, fraternal polyandry, matrilineal peoples, lower culture, infant marriage, supernatural birth, barren women, exchange wives, separate hut, sterile women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jesup Exped, British Columbia, East Indies, New Guinea, Robertson Smith, South America, Torres Straits, Central Brazil, North American, Ling Roth, Northern Queensland, Tully River, United Provinces, German East Africa, Southern India, The Kwakiutl, Danubian Gipsies, Meddygon Myddfai, Old Roger, Palm Sunday, Saint Nicholas, Tiga Loeroeng New!
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- The Evil Eye by Bigwood Elworthy on page 20, and Back Matter
- Chinook Texts by Franz Boas on page 92, and Back Matter
- Fanti Customary Laws (Library of African Study) by John M. Sarbah on page 286, and Back Matter
- Kathlamet Texts by Franz Boas on page 9, and Back Matter
- The Tribes and Castes of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh (4 Volume Set) by E.W. Crooke on page 491, and Back Matter
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