Primitive SocietyBoni and Liveright, 1920 - 463 oldal |
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Africa age-classes Andaman Islanders associated assume Australian avunculate Banks Islands Blackfoot brother ceremonial chief Chukchi civilization club complex conception connection correlation cousins cross-cousin Crow culture custom Dakota daughter definite descent distinct elder Eskimo exogamous fact factor father father-sibs feature female group marriage Hence Hidatsa Hopi Hupa husband Ifugao individual inheritance Iroquois Kariera kinship Kirgiz Koryak levirate Lowie male marry Masai mate maternal uncle matri matrilineal matrilocal residence Melanesia merely moiety mother mother-in-law mother-sibs notion parallel cousins parents parents-in-law phenomena Plains Indian polyandry polygyny practice primitive principle Pueblo region relations relationship relatives restricted rule scheme Schurtz sexual sib organization sib system sibless siblings sisters social unit society sororate stage status taboo theory Thonga tion Tlingit totemic tribal tribes Tsimshian Tylor usages Vedda wife wife's wives woman women Yukaghir Zuñi
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435. oldal - Nor are the facts of culture history without bearing on the adjustment of our own future. To that planless hodgepodge, that thing of shreds and patches called civilization, its historian can no longer yield superstitious reverence. He will realize better than others the obstacles to infusing design into the amorphous product ; but in thought at least he will not grovel before it in fatalistic acquiescence but dream of a rational scheme to supplant the chaotic jumble.
387. oldal - The history of political ideas begins, in fact, with the assumption that kinship in blood is the sole possible ground of community in political functions ; nor is there any of those subversions of feeling, which we term emphatically revolutions, so startling and so complete as the change which is accomplished when some other principle — such as that, for instance, of local contiguity — establishes itself for the first time as the basis of common political action.
247. oldal - As , regards rank, primogeniture held sway: the priest-chief was the eldest son of the eldest son of the eldest son, etc., of the line claiming descent from the gods.
347. oldal - ... gens. These facts are material, because the gens was the unit of a social and governmental system, the foundation upon which Indian society was organized. A structure composed of such units would of necessity bear the impress of their character, for as the unit so the compound. It serves to explain that sense of independence and personal dignity universally an attribute of Indian character.
429. oldal - ... that every independent portion of mankind must, if it is to move at all, move through one fated series of stages which may be designated as Stage A., Stage B, Stage C, and so forth, we still should have to face the fact that the rapidly progressive groups have been just those which have not been independent, which have not worked out their own salvation, but have appropriated alien ideas and have thus been enabled, for anything that we can tell, to leap from Stage A to Stage X without passing...
187. oldal - As noted, matrilineal descent was at one time interpreted to mean that women govern not merely the family but also the primitive equivalent of the state. Probably there is not a single theoretical problem on which modern anthropologists are so thoroughly in accord as with respect to the utter worthlessness of that inference.
394. oldal - Now the penal Law of ancient communities is not the law of Crimes; it is the law of Wrongs, or, to use the English technical word, of Torts.
64. oldal - Guinea] does not marry because of desires he can readily gratify outside of wedlock without assuming any responsibilities; he marries because he needs a woman to make pots and to cook his meals, to manufacture nets and weed his plantations, in return for which he provides the household with game and fish and builds the dwelling.
444. oldal - Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. University of Minnesota Studies in the Social Sciences, vol.