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Record of American Folk-Lore.
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items of a folk-lore sort, in the discussion of the life of primitive man, its motives and resources. The author, however, seems more than once to accept too readily generalities concerning barbarous and savage peoples, which more thorough research will perhaps demolish. Most interesting is the author's contention that, in "the fundamental difference" between family and clan, "we can discover the sought-for antithesis between domesticity and sociality" (p. 395).

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