The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Band 1Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1872 Includes articles on issues of worldwide anthropological interest. |
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... Swahili , and then in making translations into it , and in gathering by its aid some notion of the languages of the interior . I printed in Zanzibar a vocabulary and sketch - grammar of the Shambala language , and I have brought home ...
... Swahili , and then in making translations into it , and in gathering by its aid some notion of the languages of the interior . I printed in Zanzibar a vocabulary and sketch - grammar of the Shambala language , and I have brought home ...
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... Swahili race . A number of families trace themselves back to a Persian origin , and claim to have arisen before the time of Mo- hammed . The coast is traditionally said to have been used as a kind of Siberia by the old Persian kings ...
... Swahili race . A number of families trace themselves back to a Persian origin , and claim to have arisen before the time of Mo- hammed . The coast is traditionally said to have been used as a kind of Siberia by the old Persian kings ...
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... Swahili Unguja ) . All the other towns are now decaying , as the trade of the whole coast , which one may roughly describe as stretching from Lamoo on the north to Kilwa on the south , is centred in the town of Zanzibar alone . That ...
... Swahili Unguja ) . All the other towns are now decaying , as the trade of the whole coast , which one may roughly describe as stretching from Lamoo on the north to Kilwa on the south , is centred in the town of Zanzibar alone . That ...
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... Swahili kuzimu means " among the dead . " It may possibly be connected with wazimu , or wazimo , a word used in the phrase ana wazimo , " he is mad . " From its form , wazimu should signify people or spirits , and in the country parts ...
... Swahili kuzimu means " among the dead . " It may possibly be connected with wazimu , or wazimo , a word used in the phrase ana wazimo , " he is mad . " From its form , wazimu should signify people or spirits , and in the country parts ...
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... Swahili year of 365 days begins with it , and is calculated in decades . On the night before it every one bathes in the sea , and many deck themselves with green branches . In the morning a large mess of rice or grain is cooked and ...
... Swahili year of 365 days begins with it , and is calculated in decades . On the night before it every one bathes in the sea , and many deck themselves with green branches . In the morning a large mess of rice or grain is cooked and ...
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Seite 261 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Seite 224 - Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you : I am the LORD.
Seite 42 - A glance at the names of a few of the great organizations instituted in different parts of the world at the close of the last and beginning of the present century...
Seite 372 - President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the last General Meeting were read and confirmed. The following Annual Report of the Council was then read : — ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
Seite 273 - 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...
Seite 319 - Proceedings of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Seite 184 - Sheridan once said of some speech in his acute, sarcastic way, that " it contained a great deal both of what was new and what was true : but that unfortunately what was new was not true, and what was true was not new.
Seite xcvii - De la Beche describes Dartmoor as " an elevated mass of land, of an irregular form, broken into numerous minor hills, many crowned by groups of picturesque rocks, provincially termed tors ; and, for the most part, presenting a wild mixture of heath, bog, rocks, and rapid streams.
Seite xxxiv - A CATALOGUE OF MAPS OF THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN INDIA. AND OTHER PARTS OF ASIA. Published by Order of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Royal 8vo, sewed, is. A continuation of the above, sewed, price 6d., is now ready. ^- Messrs. Henry S. King &
Seite 262 - ... and that he now limits it to " adaptive changes of structure". Mr. Wright states that the only difference, on purely scientific grounds, between the views of Mr. Darwin and those of Mr. Mivart, who is himself an evolutionist, is in regard to the extent to which the process of natural selection has been effective in the modifications of species. He adds that " Mr. Darwin himself, from the very nature of the process, has never supposed for it, as a cause, any other than a co-ordinate place among...