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Page 111 - it would be impossible to find a race of " purer descent, for ever since they peopled the islands in the Stone Age they have " remained secluded from the outer world, and to this isolation is due the uniformity so " marked in their physical and mental characteristics.
Page 171 - is often combined with polygyny. Two or more brothers may have two or more wives in common. In such marriages, however, it seems to be a growing custom that one brother should give the bow and arrow to one wife, and another brother to another wife. It seems possible that the Todas are moving from polyandry
Page 7 - 0-0370. That is to say, the correlations of intelligence with the ratios of length and breadth of head to stature are slightly smaller than the correlations of intelligence with the absolute head-measurements. The result predicted from the smallness of
Page 170 - who shall be regarded as the father of a child. For all social and legal purposes the father of a child is the man who performs a certain ceremony about the seventh month of pregnancy, in which an imitation bow and arrow
Page 90 - Sumerian days the heaven was believed to rest on the peak of the mountain of the " world in the far north-east, where the gods had their habitations.
Page 1 - A MONTHLY RECORD OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN
Page 167 - some reason can be shown for suspecting the existence of traces of some Mongoloid race in the modern population of Wales and the west of England.
Page 105 - present volume contains the results of some researches into the folklore of the " Greek-speaking parts of Macedonia, carried on in 1900-1 by the author under the " auspices of the Electors to the Prendergast Studentship
Page 170 - becomes of real social importance. In these cases it is arranged that one of the husbands shall give the bow and arrow, and this man is the father, not only of the child born shortly afterwards, but also of all succeeding children, till another husband performs the essential ceremony. Fatherhood is
Page 170 - given to the woman. When the husbands are own brothers the eldest brother usually gives the bow and arrow, and is the father of the child, though so long as the brothers live together the other brothers are also regarded as fathers. It is in the cases in which the husbands are not own brothers that the ceremony