The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiryHirn, Y. (Yrjö)
Philosophy
The origins of art; a psychological & sociological inquiry
Hirn, Y. (Yrjö)
Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy; Art, Primitive
[257] Parker, _Aborigines of Australia_, pp. 25, 26; Howitt in _Journ.
Anthr. Inst._ xiii. pp. 453, 454 (Australian ceremonies of initiation),
and Cameron in the same journal, xiv. p. 358 (Tribes of N.S. Wales);
the last two instances quoted in Frazer, _Totemism_, p. 47. See also
Fison, “The Nanga,” in _J. A. I._ xiv., esp. p. 22, on an initiation
ceremony in Fiji, representing the ancestors lying dead and coming
to life again, which curiously resembles Collins’s description and
pictures of an Australian initiation (Collins, _N.S. Wales_, i. p.
575). For a somewhat analogous drama in East Africa see Dale, _Journ.
Anthr. Inst._ xxv. p. 189 (Bondi country). For interpretation of all
these rites see Frazer, _Totemism_, p. 47; and _The Golden Bough_, ii.
pp. 343-359.
[258] Carver, _Travels_, pp. 175-180; Schoolcraft, _Information_, v.
pp. 428 _sq._ Both quoted by Frazer. To be compared with the initiation
into the Secret Society of Nkimba—Ward in _Journ. Anthr. Inst._ xxiv.
pp. 288, 289 (Congo tribes).
[259] Crane, _Bases of Design_, p. 189.
[260] Cf. Haddon, _Evolution in Art_, pp. 220, 221.
[261] Brown, _Hist. of the Origin and Rise of Poetry_, pp. 49, 50.
[262] Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, ii. pp. 103, 124, 125; cf. also ii.
pp. 436, 437, and _The Origin of Species_, i. p. 109.
[263] Ribot, _Psychologie de l’attention_, pp. 44, 45.
[264] Espinas, _Des sociétés animales_, p. 284.
[265] Brehm, _Thierleben_, v. pp. 601, 602; cf. also Wallace, _Tropical
Nature_, p. 199.
[266] Nilsson, _Foglarna_, ii. p. 56; Lloyd, _Game Birds and Wild
Fowl_, p. 81.
[267] Geddes and Thomson, _The Evolution of Sex_, p. 28.
[268] Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, ii. pp. 107-109, 252.
[269] Cf. Wallace, _Tropical Nature_, pp. 196-198, _Darwinism_, p. 284;
Westermarck, _Human Marriage_, pp. 244, 250.
[270] Wallace, _Tropical Nature_, pp. 193, 209, 210, 213; _Darwinism_,
pp. 284, 287, 292, 294.
[271] Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, ii. p. 103.
[272] Cf. Wallace, _Darwinism_, p. 293; _Tropical Nature_, p. 199.
[273] Cf. Schneider, _Der Thierische Wille_, p. 367.
[274] Cf. about the relation between sexual ripening and the
development of the vocal organs, Buffon, _Hist. nat. des oiseaux_, i.
pp. 21, 22.
[275] For some suggestive remarks in this direction see Espinas, _Des
sociétés animales_, p. 313; and the anonymous paper on “The Descent of
Man” in _The Quarterly Review_, 1871, vol. cxiii. p. 62.
[276] Westermarck, _Human Marriage_, pp. 245, 249.
[277] Lindsay, _Mind in the Lower Animals_, i. p. 252, 253; ii. pp.
126, 219, 220; Grant Allen, _The Colour Sense_, pp. 119, 157, 167;
Romanes, _Animal Intelligence_, p. 247.
[278] Darwin, _The Descent of Man_, ii. pp. 123-125; Nilsson,
_Foglarna_, i. pp. 202, 206; Lindsay, _Mind in the Lower Animals_, ii.
p. 152; Cornish, _Life at the Zoo_, pp. 101-103, 105, 106.
[279] Romanes, _Darwin_, i. p. 381; Büchner, _Liebe und Liebes-Leben_,
p. 52.
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