Man and culture / by Clark Wissler.

  • Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947.
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Man and culture / by Clark Wissler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    consequences, 303-312; influ¬ ence of the environment, 314- 325 Maple-sugar manufacture, taken over from Indians by whites, 125 Marginal races and cultures, 38, l47 Marriage, as a trait-complex, 68- 69 Material traits, a main heading in culture scheme, 74, 75; as a culture complex, 89-91 Maya, civilization of, supplanted by Aztec, 204; culture of, in Yucatan, 216 Mechanical invention. See In¬ vention Mesa, habitat zone known as the, 228-230; the range of round- headed men, 230; center of origin of great civilizations, 230- 231 Mexico, peculiarities in culture of, 22-23; introduction of horses into, 115; shifting of culture centers in, 204 Middle American culture, content and patterns of, 241-246 Migration, diffusion of culture by, 159-160 Militarism, system of, not typical of Euro-American culture, 28; viewed as a means for the organized diffusion of culture, 164-167; supremacy of Impe¬ rial Germany in, 167-169; an¬ cient centers of, 169-170; duty and adoration in the complex of, 170-171; evolution and final outcome of, 173-180; the end of, not yet arrived, 350 Milk complex, range and charac¬ teristics of, 240 Minoan culture, range of, 130. See Crete Missionaries, a means of diffusing culture, 160-164 Moving pictures, change brought by, in system of communica¬ tion, 88 Music, as mark of difference be¬ tween Orient and the West, 233- 234 Mythology, a main heading in culture scheme, 74, 75 Navy. See Militarism Neanderthals, culture of the, 224- 225 Negro, acquisition of culture by the, 290 Nordics, place of, among mankind, 3_50-352, 356—358; only an in¬ cidental contribution made by, to culture as a whole, 358; the hope of the immediate future, 359 Oglala Sioux, individual complex of beliefs and ceremonial prac¬ tices among, 140, 141 Ojibway Indians, example of trait- complex from, 51-52 Organized diffusion of culture, 159-180 Oriental culture, distinction be¬ tween Euro-American culture and, 232-236; antiquity and characteristics of, 237-240; schism between Occidental and, same as between mesa and tundra, 240-241 Ownership of land, group, a dis¬ tinctive aspect of aboriginal America, 242-243 Palaeolithic cultures, characteris¬ tics of, 223-224, 227 Parallelism in histories of tribal cultures, 191-198 Patagonia, primitive culture found in, 38, 147 Pattern, the universal, for cul¬ tures, 73-97 Pattern phenomena, channelizing of culture building called, 188