Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
1. THE DISCOVERY OF PRIMITIVE MAN Early philosophical hypotheses--Prehistoric remains--Schweinfurth's discovery of the Pygmies of the Upper Congo--The Negritos of the Philippines, the inland tribes of Malacca, the Veddahs of Ceylon.
The expression 'the age of heroes and gods' may meet with objection no less than may 'totemic age.' The latter has an air of strangeness, because the conceptions of totem and to...
6. CHAPTER IIThe expression 'totemic age' involves a widened application of the term 'totem.' This word is taken from the language of the Ojibways or, as the English call them, the Chippewa...
5. CHAPTER IWho is the primitive man? Where is he to be found? What are his characteristics? These are the important questions which here at once confront us. But they are questions to whic...
8. CHAPTER IVThe question, Do we live in an enlightened age? was answered by Kant, with reference to his own time--which, as is well known, laid claim to the distinction--flatly in the negat...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE DEVELOPMENT TO HUMANITY1. THE CONCEPT 'HUMANITY' Herder's idea of humanity as the goal of history--The concepts 'mankind' and 'human nature'--Humanity as a value-concept--The idea of a cultural commun...
3. CHAPTER III--THE AGE OF HEROES AND GODS1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE HEROIC AGE Significance of the individual personality--The hero an ideal human being, the god an ideal hero--Changes in economic life and in society-...
2. CHAPTER II--THE TOTEMIC AGE1. THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF TOTEMISM The word 'totem'--Its significance for cult--Tribal organization and the institution of chieftainship--Tribal wars--Tribal ownership of land...
1. CHAPTER I--PRIMITIVE MAN1. THE DISCOVERY OF PRIMITIVE MAN Early philosophical hypotheses--Prehistoric remains--Schweinfurth's discovery of the Pygmies of the Upper Congo--The Negritos of the Philippine...