Man, Volume 14Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1914 |
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Page 62 - The resolution was then put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. The meeting then adjourned.
Page 76 - ... visible screen of nature. Obviously the conception of personal agents is more complex than a simple recognition of the similarity or contiguity of ideas ; and a theory which assumes that the course of nature is determined by conscious agents is more abstruse and recondite, and requires for its apprehension a far higher degree of intelligence and reflection than the view that things succeed each other simply by reason of their contiguity or resemblance.
Page 197 - Hebrew more long-headed, the approach to a uniform general type can not be established, because we do not know yet how long the changes continue and whether they would all lead to the same result. I confess I do not consider such a result as likely, because the proof of the plasticity of types does not imply that the plasticity is unlimited. The history of the British types in America, of the Dutch in the East Indies, and of the Spaniards in South America favors the assumption of a strictly limited...
Page 159 - ... seems to be a close resemblance between these secrets and the Eleusinian and ancient Egyptian mysteries. Certainly a considerable amount of hypnotism, clairvoyance and spiritualism is taught, and only too many proofs have been given, that some of the powers of Nature are known and utilised by initiates, in a way forgotten or unknown to their white rulers. For instance, some of the esoteric members seem to have the power of calling up shadow forms of absent persons.
Page 90 - But this power, though itself impersonal, is always connected with some person who directs it; all spirits have it, ghosts generally, some men. If a stone is found to have a supernatural power, it is because a spirit has associated itself with it; a dead man's bone has with it mana, because the ghost is with the bone...
Page 83 - would girls be useless to the men of the tribe as wives, but the more of them " there were, the more would the tribe be preyed upon by neighbours in quest of " wives. As a matter of fact this was very much the view that the Kundhs took
Page 48 - ... a chair of ethnology was created in the University of London, tenable in the school of economics. This fulfills a wish of the Haldane commission that a department of ethnology should be established as a necessary adjunct to the school of oriental studies, it being almost as important that officials in parts of the Empire inhabited by non-European races should have a knowledge of their racial characteristics as that they should be acquainted with their speech.
Page 188 - ... in marriage, and frequently so arranged matters that his legal inheritor and successor — his sister's son — should marry one or more of his daughters. This was done that his own offspring might share in his property and not be wholly deprived under the clan rule of his possessions, as under their laws no hereditary property or rights could be alienated or passed over to the x members of another clan even though the recipients were the donor's own children.
Page 90 - So far from being prseanimistic, the word is out and out spiritualistic ; it is almost, if not entirely, confined to the action of ghosts and spirits, who, whatever their origin, now go under the same name as the ghosts ; tomate in Mandegusu, kalou in Fiji, 'atua in Uvea, aitu in Samoa. It would seem that the word is simply a technical term belonging to a spiritualistic doctrine which it is now the task of Ethnology to reconstruct...
Page 57 - The CHAIRMAN put the resolution to the Meeting and declared it carried.