Miscellaneous notes on religion, magic, rites, customs, prehistory, etc. with particular reference to India.

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Imprint:1911.
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Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12358406
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Other authors / contributors:Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, current owner.
Notes:Collection no.: MS 125.
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505 0 |a Animism -- Earth stimulated by dancing -- Dolmen period -- Devi cults -- Jainism -- Jainism and Buddhism, February 2, 1898 -- Temples -- Mon Kmer race -- Dravidian jaw types -- Dravidians -- Jains -- Owing to the existence of certain differences we should not be justified in assuming a common origin for Mon-Khmer languages -- Representations of Mother Earth -- Myth of separation of earth and sky -- Religion -- The earth goddess rising out of the ground -- Palaeolithic implements -- Stone weapons -- Women -- Harvest festivals -- Sowing festivals -- Cattle festivals -- Interment dolmens -- People born out of the earth -- [Glossary] -- Saturnalia -- Swinging -- Dress -- Fertility rites -- Earth with a snake -- Samoan sacred animals, July 18, 1902 -- [Marriage] -- Taboo -- Mother Earth worship -- Wind spirits -- Hair offered to stimulate -- Earth stimulated by fire -- The present state of anthropology, March 12, 1910 -- Seasons -- Mock fights -- Sympathetic magic through relations -- Primitive interments in Nilagirri -- Preanimism -- Iron age -- [Charms] -- Sun worship -- Water spirits -- Recent famine lessons - The study of caste - The tomb of Akbar -- Religion -- Copper and bronze -- Trees sacred -- Khasi monuments -- Hill spirits -- Twelve great Indian lingams -- Stones -- Village gods -- Connection of modern tribes with prehistoric A/c -- Tree marriage -- Beating the earth -- Priests, etc., sleeping on the ground -- Sacred earth -- Victims buries -- New Year's Day -- The sleep of the Earth -- Vedic worship of earth -- Tree and jungle spirits -- First fruits -- Dasahra -- Spring feast -- Earth oracular -- Most goddesses modification of one primitive goddess Mother Earth -- Cocoanut day; John B. Seely, September 30, 1910 -- Sun enters Capricornus ..., Aries, December 22, 1911 -- Sun enters Cancer ..., Libra, June 22-September 24, 1911 -- Sceetore - secretary; R. Temple, June 7, 1900 -- [Glossary terms and references] -- Devi -- Maypoles -- Things not allowed to fall on the ground -- Stimulating the powers of Mother Earth by blood -- Posts and pillars -- 'Hee [the Rev. Wm. Leske] whipt the sayd broker ...' -- Blood not allowed to fall on the ground -- Earth stimulated by abuse -- Danger of interfering with Mother Earth -- Manuscript for new edition of Popular religion and folklore of Northern India -- Earth both kindly and malignant -- [Index to MS 125/61] -- Magic -- 'Have sent to give message to men by the moon ...' -- Bronze and copper -- Buddhism -- Sacred marriage -- 'The habit of creeping under a sacred stone ...' -- Death of the God -- Amulet -- [List of references - fairies, folklore] -- Kinds of grain -- 'Hartly House an Indian novel ...' -- 'A curious petition was delivered to me ...', 1814 -- 'India in particular is conspicuous for the absence of the prehistoric evidence ...' -- 'The worship of the Gonds ...' -- Sun worship -- 'The beliefs in respect of stepping over a person ...' -- Cocoanut day at Bombay, July 10, 1909 -- 'Bele? Used for working aid ...'. 
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