Archives internationales d'ethnographie, Volumes 25-27P.W.M. Trap, 1923 |
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Page 142 - If a man has been successful in fighting, it has not been his natural strength of arm, quickness of eye, or readiness of resource that has won success; he has certainly got the mana of a spirit or of some deceased warrior to empower him, conveyed in an amulet of a stone round his neck, or a tuft of leaves in his belt, in a tooth hung upon a finger of his bow hand, or in the form of words with which he brings supernatural assistance to his side.
Page lviii - Ceteri vero octo seminarent et meterent frugesque colligerent nono et suis eas locis reconderent. Concilia et omnes conventus atque convivia in urbibus voluit celebrari; in quibus extruendis die noctuque operam dabant, qua- 5 tinus in pace discerent, quid contra hostes in necessitate facere debuissent. Vilia aut nulla extra urbes fuere moenia.
Page 15 - A remarkable fact connected with the interments of this class is that the vases are usually set on the bones of an infant. No explanation derived from historical or present observances of any of the pueblo tribes can be given of this strange custom, which appears to have been of sacrificial character.
Page 50 - An Introductory Study of the Arts, Crafts, and Customs of the Guiana Indians», Report ofthe Bureau of American Ethnology, XXXVIII, Washington, 1924, pág.
Page 123 - Far from these world-wide opinions being arbitrary or conventional products, it is seldom even justifiable to consider their uniformity among distant races as proving communication of any sort. They are doctrines answering in the most forcible way to the plain evidence of men's senses, as interpreted by a fairly consistent and rational primitive philosophy. So well, indeed, does primitive animism account for the facts of nature, that it has held its place into the higher levels of education. Though...
Page lxxiii - Egmond wederom de ruïne, meerendeels uit duif- of trassteen bestaande, met dien verstande dat al het boven den grond staande steenwerk met de oppervlakte van het kerkhof gelijk zou gemaakt worden, doch dat integendeel al wat onder den grond zat onaangeroerd zou worden gelaten, uit aanmerking van de menigte grafkelders. Al het inwendige steenwerk werd later nog eens opnieuw verkocht en in 1825 werd het vandalenwerk voltooid van de zijde der gemeente, die het verspreid liggende puin deed opzamelen...
Page 90 - ... principal de toda la provincia, ya quien el otro curaca de hurinsaya obedece en las cosas que dice él. Tiene el de hanansaya el mexor lugar de los asientos y en todo lo demás, que en esto guardan su orden.
Page cliv - Immers daar lezen wij, dat zij „ultra vicum Dorestatum contra flumen Reni per „miliaria novem remigaverunt usque ad vicum Meginhardi et ibidem facta preda reversi sunt".
Page clxxiv - ... to be an adequate but a minimum definition of the psychological correlates of religion ; it merely attempts to disengage the least common denominator in all religious phenomena. Like Durkheim I derive this common element from a dichotomy of the universe ; but, following Marett rather than Durkheim, I see this dichotomy not in the arbitrary division of the Sacred from the Profane but in the differential response to normal and abnormal stimuli, in the spontaneous distinction thus created between...
Page 85 - Faktoren, die Naturmythologie, der Zaubergedanke und der Animismus, in ihrer Geltung immer mehr steigen, ein Beweis, daß der Gedanke des höchsten Wesens aus einer ganz anderen Quelle stammt als sie...