American Anthropologist

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American Anthropological Association, 1917

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Página 257 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 106 - ... where located, and where and how invested, the amount and nature of the property acquired during the year immediately preceding the date of the report and the manner of the acquisition ; the amount applied, appropriated or expended during the year immediately preceding such date, and the purposes, objects or persons to or for which such applications, appropriations or expenditures have been made...
Página 103 - I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law.
Página 107 - Directors, but if less than such majority is present at a meeting, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time* without further notice.
Página 118 - Thereupon, on motion duly made and seconded, it was unanimously RESOLVED, that the...
Página 121 - Chicago, Open Court Publ. Co., 1910. Pp. xx + 280. NOTES AND NEWS. THE New York Branch of the American Psychological Association met on April 25 in affiliation with the Section of Anthropology and Psychology of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Página 171 - Take a couple of ant eggs of the right sex — unhatched eggs, freshly laid. Blot out every individual and every other egg of the species. Give the pair a little attention as regards warmth, moisture, protection, and food. The whole of ant "society...
Página 104 - AMENDMENTS Amendments, after having been approved by a majority of the Executive Committee present at a meeting regularly called, may be adopted by a majority vote of the members present at any regular meeting of the Association.
Página 163 - But the greater human intelligence in itself does not cause the differences that exist. This psychic superiority is only the indispensable condition of what is peculiarly human; civilization. Directly, it is the civilization in which every Eskimo, every Alaskan miner or arctic discoverer is reared, and not any greater inborn faculty, that leads him to build houses, ignite fire, and wear clothing. The distinction between animal and man which counts is not that of the physical and mental, which is...
Página 416 - Belief in days lucky and unlucky " has operated, like other superstitions to retard the development of mankind," but, " nothing is more interesting than the contemplation of that unconscious though beneficent process which has converted institutions based partly or wholly on a belief in the imaginary and the supernatural into institutions resting on the rock of reason and subserving human welfare.

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