Author: Edward ShortlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ao Wairua
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders
Author: Edward ShortlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ao Wairua
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Traditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders; with illustrations of their Manners and Customs
Author: Edward SHORTLANDTraditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders ... 2. Ed
Author: Edward ShortlandThe New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: The New Zealand Official Year-book
Author: New Zealand. Department of StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The Story of New Zealand
Author: Arthur Saunders ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Story of New Zealand, Past and Present
Author: Arthur Saunders THOMSONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Story of New Zealand: pt. 2 continued
Author: Arthur Saunders ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
New Zealand Lizards
Author: David G. ChapplePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 331941674X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna. Nestled in the south-west Pacific, New Zealand is a large archipelago that displays the faunal signatures of both its Gondwanan origins, and more recent oceanic island influences. New Zealand was one of the last countries on Earth to be discovered, and likewise, the full extent of the faunal diversity present within the archipelago is only just starting to be appreciated. This is no better exemplified than in lizards, where just 30 species (20 skinks, 10 geckos) were recognized in the 1950s, but now 104 are formally or informally recognized (61 skinks, 43 geckos). Thus, New Zealand contains one of the most diverse lizard faunas of any cool, temperate region on Earth. This book brings together the world’s leading experts in the field to produce an authoritative overview of the history, taxonomy, biogeography, ecology, life-history, physiology and conservation of New Zealand lizards.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Complete)
Author: Sir James George FrazerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465538461
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 6687
Book Description
For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.