The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volym 14

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Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1884
Includes articles on issues of worldwide anthropological interest.

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Sida 148 - Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Sida 24 - This feasting and frolic may be kept up for several days, after which the „ordinary restrictions recur once more. The rights of property are again respected, the abandoned revellers „settle down into steady-going married couples, and brothers and sisters may not so much as speak to one „another. Nowhere in Fiji, as far as I am aware, excepting in the Nanga country, are these extravagances „connected with the rite of circumcision !). ') Compare Zipporah's offering on behalf of Moses, Exodus...
Sida 92 - Arab women generally cultivate some fields of dura, or corn, sufficient for the wants of the tribe. The Arab himself would consider it a disgrace to practise any manual labour. He is essentially a hunter, a robber, and a warrior, and, after caring for his cattle, devotes all his energies to slavehunting and war."i2 Some of these Arab tribes are very numerous and powerful.
Sida 312 - ... to his endowment with the privileges of manhood and of its subsequent duties and responsibilities. These ceremonies implant within the minds of the young men an unquestioning " feeling of obedience to the old men of the tribe and to the moral code of which they are the depositories, and furthermore to ensure that, before the youth is permitted to 'take his place in the community, join in the councils, and marry, he shall be possessed of those qualifications which will enable him to act for the...
Sida 371 - Even in the first step of establishing certain primary groups of equivalent rank there has been no accord. The number of such groups has been most variously estimated by different writers from two up to sixty, or more, although it is important to note that there has always been a tendency to revert to the four primitive types sketched out by Linnaeus — the European, Asiatic, African, and American — expanded into five by Blumenbach by the addition of the Malay, and reduced by Cuvier to three by...
Sida 92 - The Wa-huma, to whom the attention of ethnologists has scarcely yet been seriously directed, present some points of great anthropological interest, probably affording a solution of the difficulties connected with the constituent elements of the Bantu races in East Central Africa. Speke had already observed that the chiefs of the Bantu nations about the great lakes were always Wa-Huma, a pastoral people evidently of Galla stock, and originally immigrants from the Galla country. Since then it has been...
Sida 270 - ... females, we should take the 100 males and draft out the 7 weakest of them, and draft in the 7 strongest females. Very powerful women exist, but happily perhaps for the repose of the other sex, such gifted women are rare. Out of 1657 adult females of various ages measured at the laboratory, the strongest could only exert a squeeze of 86 Ibs. or about that of a medium man. The population of England hardly contains enough material to form even a few regiments of efficient Amazons.
Sida 303 - It was thought that the lads had become selfish, and no longer willing to share that which they obtained by their own exertions, or had given to them, with their friends. The boys being all seated in a row, at each end of which was one of the Headmen, the doctor proceeded to exercise his magical functions. He stooped over the first boy, and muttering some words which I could not catch, he kneaded the lad's stomach with his hands. This he did to each one successively, and by it the Kurnai supposed...
Sida 83 - PEARLS OF THE FAITH ; or, Islam's Rosary : being the Ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah. With Comments in Verse from various Oriental sources as made by an Indian Mussulman. By Edwin Arnold, MA, CSI, &c. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, pp. xvi. and 320, cloth. 1883. 7s. 6d. ARNOLD.— THE LIGHT OF ASIA ; or, THE GREAT RENUNCIATION (Mahabhinishkramana).
Sida 84 - PARRY.— A SHORT CHAPTER ON LETTER-CHANGE, with Examples. Being chiefly an attempt to reduce in a simple manner the principal classical and cognate words to their primitive meanings. By J. Parry, BA, formerly Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Fcap. 8vo, pp. 16, wrapper. 1884. Is.

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