FROM far-northwest Greenland to the southernmost tip of Patagonia, peo ple hail the new moon a time for singing and praying, eating and drinking Eskimos spread a feast, their sorcerers perform, they extinguish lamps and exchange women. African Bushmen chant a prayer, Young Moonl Hail, hail, Young Moon!" In the light of the moon everyone wants to dance And the moon has other virtues. The ancient…
In recent years, most anthropologists have readopted an evolutionary point of view, but have rephrased it in multilinear terms and disassociated it from the more conjectural earlier attempts to trace the origin of customs and insti- rutions. There is not yet available, however, a global scheme for the stages of sociocultural evolution that is based on the most recent contributions from archeolo…
MATERIAL LIFE is made up of people and things. The study of things, of every thing mankind makes or uses food, housing, clothing, luxury, tools, coinage or its substitutes, framework of village and town is not the only way of analysing daily life. The number of people who share the wealth of the world is also significant. The outward feature that immediately differentiates the present world fro…
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Ilmu pengetahuan, pada dasarnya, bukanlah sesuatu yang berkotak- kotak, melainkan merupakan suatu kesatuan. Namun, demi kemudahan penanganannya, pembidangan ilmu tidak bisa dihindarkan.2 Malahan justru karena adanya pembidangan itu, kemudian kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan men- jadi sangat pesat. Pembidangan ilmu itu sekaligus juga menunjukkan, betapa kecilnya manusia dengan kemampuannya, kalau diban…