An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its ValueSully, James
Philosophy
An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value
Sully, James
Laughter
[179] How easily one may overcharge this indictment of coarse
immorality is illustrated by what Von den Steinen says of the laughter
of the Brazil Indian women when he asked them the names of the several
bodily parts. Some would have taken this to be the low joking of
brazen-faced women. He distinctly tells us that it was “just simple
innocent laughter,” _op. cit._, p. 65.
[180] Ling Roth, _op. cit._, i., p. 72.
[181] Barrow, _Hudson’s Bay_, p. 32.
[182] Lichtenstein, _Travels in Southern Africa_, ii., p. 312.
[183] Compare above, pp. 72, 73.
[184] Ellis, _op. cit._, i., p. 97.
[185] Wood, _op. cit._, ii., p. 522.
[186] Lichtenstein, _op. cit._, ii., p. 308.
[187] Burchell, _Travels in Southern Africa_ (1822), vol. ii., p. 339.
[188] Ling Roth, _op. cit._ (2nd ed.), p. 134.
[189] Marsden, _History of Sumatra_, p. 230.
[190] Ling Roth, _op. cit._ (2nd ed.), p. 36.
[191] Sproat, _Savage Life_, p. 266.
[192] Quoted by Ling Roth, _Sarawak and British North Borneo_, i., p.
93.
[193] Compare above, p. 104.
[194] Hind, _Canadian Red River Expedition_, ii., p. 135.
[195] See Ling Roth, _Sarawak and British North Borneo_, i., p. 75.
[196] Spencer and Gillen, _The Native Tribes of Central Australia_, pp.
136, 137.
[197] Quoted from Gideon Lang by Bonwick, _Daily Life of the
Tasmanians,_ p. 174.
[198] Nansen asserts this with respect to the attitude of the Eskimos
towards the Danes who settled in Greenland in 1728. See _Eskimo Life_,
pp. 106–7.
[199] Brough Smyth, _Aborigines of Victoria_ (1878), ii., p. 278.
[200] Sarasin, _op. cit._, iii., p. 540.
[201] Burton, _Wit and Wisdom of West Africa_, p. 52.
[202] Ling Roth, _Sarawak and British North Borneo_, i., p. 83.
[203] Ling Roth, _op. cit._, i., pp. 83–4.
[204] Sproat, _op. cit._, p. 51.
[205] Quoted by Darwin, _Expression of the Emotions_, p. 209.
[206] Von den Steinen, _op. cit._, p. 71.
[207] Turnbull, _op. cit._, p. 88.
[208] _Op. cit._, p. 372.
[209] Brough Smyth, _op. cit._, i., p. 29.
[210] _North American Ethnology_ (J. W. Powell), vol. iii., p. 410.
[211] _Op. cit._, pp. 239, 291.
[212] Ling Roth, _Tasmania_ (2nd ed.), p. 38.
[213] Marsden, _op. cit._, p. 230.
[214] Quoted by Waitz, _Naturvölker_, 6ter Theil, p. 102.
[215] Ling Roth, _Sarawak and British North Borneo_, i., p. 84.
[216] Hans Egede, _Nat. Hist. of Greenland_, pp. 156–7.
[217] F. Nansen, _Eskimo Life_, p. 187; _cf._ Egede, _loc. cit._
[218] Quoted from Jackson’s Narrative (1840) by Erskine, _Western
Pacific_, p. 468.
[219] Bonwick, _op. cit._, p. 29.
[220] Grey, _Two Expeditions in Australia_ (1841), ii., pp. 307–8.
[221] J. Chandler Harris, _Uncle Remus and his Friends_.
[222] R. E. Dennett, _Folklore of the Fjort_, pp. 92–3.
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