Ethnology
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Aborigines (ABORIGENI)
ABORIGINES. - Indigenous people native to the place where they live (autochthons). In the ethnological sense, those inhabitants of a land… -
Animatism (ANIMATISMO)
ANIMATISM. - An expression introduced into ethnological and religio-historical subjects by R. R. Marett, and which is meant to characterize… -
Animism (ANIMISMO)
ANIMISM. - 1. ETHNOLOGY. - This term generally denotes the tendency of certain primitive peoples to attribute a soul not only to man but… -
Bantu (BÀNTU)
BANTU. - Under this name are included many tribes of the southern part of Africa that are not culturally and racially homogeneous. It is in… -
Cannibalism (CANNIBALISMO)
CANNIBALISM. - I. STORIA DELLE CONO- SCIENCE AND DISTRIBUTION. - The term, synonymous with anthropophagy, derives from the name Caribales,… -
Cultural Evolutionism (EVOLUZIONISMO CULTURALE)
CULTURAL EVOLUTIONISM. - A theory that interprets human-social events according to the laws of evolution. SUMMARY: I. History. - II. The… -
Cultural Hero (EROE CULTURALE)
CULTURAL HERO. - This is a figure encountered in the mythology of many primitive peoples and has a secondary and subordinate function in… -
Eskimos (ESCHIMESI)
ESKIMOS. - Collective name for a group of small tribes inhabiting Greenland, Labrador, the Canadian Arctic as far as Alaska, and Siberia.… -
Ethnology (ETNOLOGIA)
ETHNOLOGY. - It is the science that studies the cultural manifestations of primitive populations. SUMMARY: I. Ethnology and its task. - II.… -
Exogamy (ESOGAMIA)
EXOGAMY. - The term e. (exogamy), introduced into sociology by Mc Lennan, means that rule, common to all peoples, by which a wife must be… -
Fetishism (FETICISMO)
FETISHISM. - The term fetish (enchantment, amulet), a word derived from the Latin factitius (cf. Italian fattura), was applied by the… -
Functionalism (FUNZIONALISMO)
FUNCTIONALISM: V. RAZIONALISMO. FUNCTIONALISM. - The founder of this ethnological school, originally English, is considered to be B.… -
Initiation (INIZIAZIONE)
INITIATION. - From Lat. in-eo (hence initium, initiare) "to enter within," here in the sacral sense of being admitted among the… -
Kinship (Among Primitive Peoples) (PARENTELA (PRESSO I POPOLI PRIMITIVI))
KINSHIP (Among Primitive Peoples). - Primitive peoples too distinguish a threefold kinship: by blood, by affinity, and legal-spiritual… -
Law (DIRITTO)
LAW. - This noun, which may be called the common patrimony of the languages of civilized peoples, derives etymologically in a direct line… -
Monotheism (MONOTEISMO)
MONOTHEISM. - I. THEOLOGY. - Monotheism (from μόνος θεός) is the doctrine that teaches that God is one only, inasmuch as, given his nature,… -
Polytheism (POLITEISMO)
POLYTHEISM. - From Gr. πολίς = many and θεός = god, it is the belief in and worship of several divinities independent of one another, as… -
Primitives (PRIMITIVI)
PRIMITIVES. - Until about 1860 the question of "regression" or "degeneration" was still alive, that is, whether the primitive peoples, who… -
Prostitution (PROSTITUZIONE)
PROSTITUTION. - It is sexual activity exercised outside of marriage, especially by women and usually for profit, with anyone who requests… -
Pygmies (PIGMEI)
PYGMIES. — This is the name given, from a Greek term (πυγμῶς = men as tall as a fist) already known to Homer, to the representatives of a… -
Satisfaction (In Ethnology) (SODDISFAZIONE (NELLA ETNOLOGIA))
SATISFACTION (IN ETHNOLOGY). - I. - Among primitive peoples, particularly among those ethnologically most ancient, there exists a moral… -
Semitic-Hamitic (SEMITO-CAMITI)
SEMITIC-HAMITIC. - The name of Semites and Hamites goes back to the list of peoples in the Bible (Gen. 10), where a certain number of… -
Totemism (TOTEMISMO)
TOTEMISM. - I. DEFINIZIONE, DIVISIONE, ELEMENTI DEL T. - The term totem (totam, todam, ndodem) originates in the language of the Ojibwa… -
Turco-Mongols (TURCO-MONGOLI)
TURCO-MONGOLS. - I. The Turkish peoples have spread across Asia and Europe. In southeastern Europe there are the Ottoman Turks of Anatolia,… -
Ugro-Finns (UGROFINNICI)
UGRO-FINNS. - A special linguistic family divided into two branches: the eastern or Ugric and the western or Finnic. To the first belong…