Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, Volumen20

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South African Association for the Advancement of Science., 1923

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Página 140 - 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 92 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página iii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry; to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the...
Página 375 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Página 146 - Rivers, in his Presidential Address to the Anthropological Section of the British Association...
Página 157 - Human nature indeed remains the same with its conservatism, inertia, and imitativeness (p. 436). But the particular forms which institutions assume evidently depend on a multiplicity of variable immediate factors, and if there are common and permanent factors they either cannot be isolated or remain as vague as the three trends mentioned. In essence, then, modern ethnology says that so and so happens, and may tell why it happened thus in that particular case. It does not tell, and does not try to...
Página viii - Meeting. It has therefore become necessary, in order to give an opportunity to the Committees of doing justice to the several communications, that each Author should prepare an Abstract of his Memoir, of a length suitable for insertion in the published Transactions of the Association, and that...
Página v - Report of the Association. TRUSTEES. 38. The Council shall have the power to appoint any person or persons to accept and hold in trust for the Association any money or property belonging to the Association or in which it is interested, or for any other purposes, and to execute and do all such deeds and things as may be requisite in relation to any such trust. The Council shall have the power from time to time to fill up any vacancy, provided always that the appointment of any Trustee or Trustees...
Página 544 - The girl or girls who have become of age must, after the festival, run about in the first thunderstorm, but they must be quite naked, so that the rain which pours down washes the whole body. The belief is that they will get fruitful and have a large offspring.
Página 399 - Noon 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM...

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