Excerpt from Handbook of Ethnography Works like Frazer's The Golden Bough, Westermarck's History of Human Marriage, Sumner and Keller' s The Science of Society, and Briifault's The Mothers, have entered into the common stock of knowledge of the cultured student of human society. Yet in each of these works, several thousand names of tribes and places are used, and it is an exceptional amateur who can read more than a fraction of these names with a feeling of familiarity. If he be curi ous, he must pursue, like the author of ...
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Excerpt from Handbook of Ethnography Works like Frazer's The Golden Bough, Westermarck's History of Human Marriage, Sumner and Keller' s The Science of Society, and Briifault's The Mothers, have entered into the common stock of knowledge of the cultured student of human society. Yet in each of these works, several thousand names of tribes and places are used, and it is an exceptional amateur who can read more than a fraction of these names with a feeling of familiarity. If he be curi ous, he must pursue, like the author of this handbook, the devious path of footnotes and encyclopedias. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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