 THE religion of the Melanesians is the expression of their conception of the supernatural, and embraces a very wide range of beliefs and practices, the limits of which it would be very difficult to define. It is equally difficult to ascertain with precision...  The South Seas (Melanesia) - Page 68by John Henry Macartney Abbott - 1908 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Henry Codrington - Ethnology - 1891 - 452 pages
...by whose wealth he has bought the higher ; he is the great man, the Ratahigi. CHAPTER VII. RELIGION. THE religion of the Melanesians is the expression...present them in any systematic form among themselves. An observer who should set himself the task of making systematic enquiries, must find himself baffled... | |
 | Robert Henry Codrington - Ethnology - 1891 - 478 pages
...whose wealth he has bought the higher ; he is the great man, the Ratahigi. I 2 CHAPTER VH. RELIGION. THE religion of the Melanesians is the expression...difficult to ascertain with precision what these beliefs arc. The ideas of the natives are not clear upon many points, they are not accustomed to present them... | |
 | Archaeology - 1892 - 352 pages
...„savages". Nothing can be more judicious than the introductory remarks of Chapter VII, on Religion: „The religion of the Melanesians is the expression...present them in any systematic form among themselves. An observer who should set himself the task of making systematic enquiries, must find himself baffled... | |
 | Adolf Bastian - Lesser Sunda Islands - 1894 - 192 pages
...Codrington),1) uud so (wie in Australien) bei Indianern und Negern (nach dort sachkundigem Ausdruck). ') „The religion of the Melanesians is the expression...very difficult to define. It is equally difficult to ascenain with precision what these beliefs are. The ideas of the natives are not clear upon many points,... | |
 | Henry Hutchinson Montgomery - Melanesia - 1896 - 332 pages
...foremost, what are the ideas we wish to modify or displace in order to give them the Gospel of Christ. " The religion of the Melanesians is the expression...present them in any systematic form among themselves. An observer, who should set himself the task of making systematic inquiries, must find himself baffled... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology Department - Anthropology - 1919 - 316 pages
...designs in which the animal is indicated only by its symbols. MELANESIAN RELIGION ! BY RH CODRINGTON The religion of the Melanesians is the expression...present them in any systematic form among themselves. An observer "who should set himself the task of making systematic enquiries, must find himself baffled... | |
 | Alfred Louis Kroeber, Thomas Talbot Waterman - Anthropology - 1924 - 606 pages
...melodious that flows in gladness. Sialia calls! Sialia calls! 46. MELANESIAN RELIGION By RH CODRINGTON The religion of the Melanesians is the expression...present them in any systematic form among themselves. An observer who should set himself the task of making systematic enquiries, must find himself baffled... | |
 | Hendrik Kern - Oriental philology - 1927 - 338 pages
...<savages>. Nothing can be more judicious than the introductory remarks of Chapter VII, on Religion: «The religion of the Melanesians is the expression...present them in any systematic form among themselves. An observer who should set himself the task of making systematic enquiries, must find himself baffled... | |
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