Author: Akira MatsumuraPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332046775
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Excerpt from A Gazetteer of Ethnology In reading works on Philology, Sociology and Anthropology we frequently find names of races and peoples mentioned without any hint as to their locality. The inconvenience of this is heightened by the fact that there appear to be no works specially dealing with this subject, by reference to which the deficiency could be remedied. Thinking it would be very desirable, if such a defect can be removed even in the slightest degree, I began to compile this book in the spring of 1902, but owing to the lack of suitable reference books in this country, the work has progressed more slowly than I anticipated and even in its present state does not afford me complete satisfaction. Nevertheless, having collected eight thousand tribe-names of all countries, I decided to publish the present book. There being no dictionaries of this kind in Europe and America, the two languages, English and Japanese were especially used. The present volume being compiled with the above object, the distributions of races and peoples in past and present times are mentioned, and at the same time, I have endeavoured to add as many synonyms of them as possible, and to explain the derivation and meaning of the terms, while their ethnical relations and characters are omitted. 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.