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
[381] Spencer, _Descr. Soc._ Division I. Nr. v. p. 30.
[382] Cf. Johnston, _British Central Africa_, p. 408.
[383] Schurtz, _Das Augenornament_, pp. 49, 54.
[384] Cf. p. 217 in the preceding.
[385] Mathews in _Journ. Anthr. Inst._ xxiv. p. 424.
[386] Fritsch, _Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrikas_, p. 140.
[387] Johnston, _British Central Africa_, p. 408.
[388] Kidd, _Social Evolution_, p. 279; cf. Spencer, _Principles of
Sociology_, i. pp. 88, 89.
[389] Johnstone, _Maoria_, p. 43.
[390] Cf. Burton, _Mission to Gelele_, i. pp. 46, 51, 210, 267, 382;
ii. p. 10; Forbes, _Dahomey_, i. p. 24.
[391] Woods, _Native Tribes_, p. 37 (Taplin, “The Narrinyeri”).
[392] Burton, _Mission to Gelele_, i. pp. 149, 150; Acosta, _History of
the Indies_, ii. p. 444. For European trade dances see, _e.g._, Böhme,
_Tanz in Deutschland_, i. pp. 63 _sq._, 209.
[393] Féré, _Sensation et mouvement_, p. 4.
[394] Cf. Spencer, _Principles of Sociology_, i. p. 48.
[395] Rengger, _Saeugethiere von Paraguay_, p. 12.
[396] Cf. the facts adduced by Rengger, _l.c._ p. 11.
[397] Salvado, _Voyage en Australie_, pp. 182, 183.
[398] As regards the general psychology of musical and poetical
exhortation to work cf. Chardin, _Voyages_, i. p. 160, quoted in
Bücher’s _Arbeit und Rhythmus_, pp. 48, 367. For typical instances
see Reade, _The African Sketch Book_, ii. p. 313 (Krumen); Wissman,
_Unter deutschen Flagge_, p. 43 (West African Carriers); Burton,
_Lake Regions_, ii. p. 291 (East Africa); Grove, _Dancing_, p. 16
(Egypt); Turner, _Nineteen Years in Polynesia_, pp. 317, 345; Lewin,
_Wild Races_, p. 271 (Lhoosai); Thomson, _New Zealand_, i. p. 167;
Dieffenbach, _New Zealand_, ii. p. 57.
[399] Cf. The satirical and erotic boat songs of the Gold Coast
Negroes—Winterbottom, _Africans of Sierra Leone_, i. p. 112, and the
historical and erotic ploughing songs of the ancient Peruvians—Markham,
_Ollanta_, pp. 1, 2.
[400] A collection of such working songs from among various civilised
nations has been brought together by Professor Bücher in his _Arbeit
und Rhythmus_.
[401] Cf. _e.g._ the interesting chapter on mill songs in Bücher’s
above-mentioned work. As an addendum to this collection we may adduce
the corn-grinding song of the Mapuché women—Smith, _The Araucanians_,
p. 306.
[402] Noiré, _Der Ursprung der Sprache_, pp. 331 _sq._
[403] Cf. _e.g._ Lenz, _Skizzen aus Westafrica_, pp. 198, 199, on the
exciting effects exercised by tam-tam music on the Okandes.
[404] See the boat-building songs of the Hervey Islanders (Gill, _South
Pacific_, p. 22), which form so striking an analogy to the magical
“Runos” of the old Finns. Cf. also Mason, _Origins of Invention_, p.
150 (Maoris).
[405] Lagrange, _Physiologie des exercises du corps_, pp. 32-35;
Souriau, _L’esthétique du movement_, pp. 58, 59.
[406] Féré, _Sensation et mouvement_, p. 12.
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