Analytical And Critical Bibliography Of The Tribes Of Tierra Del Fuego And Adjacent Territory Primary Source Edition

Author : John M. Cooper
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332047475
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra Del Fuego and Adjacent Territory (Classic Reprint) written by John M. Cooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Analytical and Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra Del Fuego and Adjacent Territory If we are entitled to accept the principle that the modern barbarian world has preserved to a fair degree the culture of humanity's adolescence, we may legitimately go a step farther and look to the modem savage world for some clue to the culture of humanity's childhood. Used with due reserve, our knowledge of savage culture may help toward a reconstruction of the earlier stages of prehistoric cultural development, but at any rate coordination of the facts must precede their interpretation, and in turn be preceded by intensive studies of the individual savage tribes. The present work had its origin in such an attempt to find what light an intensive study of the available sources would throw on the culture, particularly the religion and morality, and on the cultural relations, of one of the most primitive aboriginal American groups. In the course of preparation references accumulated, and what began as a cultural study has ended as a bibliography. I wish to take this opportunity to express my grateful appreciation first of all to Mr. Frederick W. Hodge, who has given me his valued counsel on many matters connected with the work. I am also indebted to him as well as to Mr. Wilberforce Eames for several important titles. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka and Dr. John R. Swan ton have generously given me the benefit of their expert knowledge and wide experience in their respective fields, although of course I should not like them to be held responsible for conclusions advanced in the work. Prof. Charles Wellington Furlong, whose intimate personal knowledge of the Fuegian and Patagonian tribes makes him our foremost North American authority on their culture, has very kindly put at my disposal much of his invaluable manuscript material and has given mo information on many obscure points. The Rev. Dr. Antonio Cojazzi and Father Jose M. Beauvoir, both of the Salesian Society, have by letter helped to clear up for me several matters in connection with their own and their confreres linguistic studies. I have to thank Mr. Charles Martel, of the Library of Congress, for many kindnesses to me and for his valuable suggestions regarding bibliographical technique. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.