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E. Leroux, 1902 - 359 páginas
 

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Página xxxviii - Le- Congrès international des Américanistes a pour objet l'étude historique et scientifique des deux Amériques et de leurs habitants. Art. 2. — Ce Congrès a lieu tous les deux ans ; autant que possible il alternera ses sessions entre l'Ancien et le Nouveau Monde ; il ne peut pas siéger deux fois de suite dans le même pays.
Página ii - LEVASSEUR, membre de l'Institut, professeur au Collège de France et au Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, rue Monsieur-le-P rince, 26, Paris.
Página 110 - A totem is a class of material objects which a savage regards with superstitious respect, believing that there exists between him and every member of the class an intimate and altogether special relation.
Página 89 - Lobon tardaba en dárselo; y esto es lo que sabe y la verdad para el juramento que hizo, y lo firmó de su nombre.
Página 95 - Chronique Rimée des derniers rois de Tolède et de la conquête de l'Espagne par les Arabes.
Página 163 - If we connect this evidence with the microscopic evidence obtained by Mr. Merrill, it becomes clear that all the Alaskan jades are essentially identical, varying among themselves no more than specimens commonly vary from a single locality. This disposes of the theory that their presence in Alaska is to be accounted for upon the basis of trade with Siberia ; which theory is also negatived by the discovery announced by Mr. GM Dawson ("Science,
Página 147 - Spaniards call piedras htjadas, and we use for spleen stones, and for the disease of the stone we also esteem them : of these I saw divers in Guiana, and commonly every king, or casique, hath one, which their wives for the most part wear, and they esteem them as great jewels.
Página 64 - Piratas de la America y luz a la defensa de las costas de Indias Occidentales.
Página 110 - The connexion between a man and his totem is mutually beneficent; the totem protects the man, and the man shows his respect for the totem in various ways, by not killing it if it be an animal, and not cutting or gathering it if it be a plant. As distinguished from a fetich, a totem is never an isolated individual, but always a class of objects, generally a species of animals or of plants, more rarely a class of inanimate natural objects, very rarely a class of artificial objects.
Página 149 - England,) and is a man of great understanding and policy : he is above one hundred years old, and yet of a very able body : the Spaniards led him in a chain seventeen days, and made him their guide from place to place between his country and Emeria, the province of Carapana aforesaid, and was at last redeemed for one hundred plates of gold, and divers stones called piedras hijadas, or spleen stones.

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