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Excerpt from Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa
TO treat her as a goddess has always been ac counted a sure way of winning a lady's favour. To the cynic, therefore, it might seem. That Mrs. Mcgovern was bound to speak well of her head hunting friends oi the Formosan hills, seeing that they welcomed her With a respect that bordered on veneration. But of other head-hunters, hailing, say, from Borneo or from Assam, anthropologists have reported no less well, and that though the investigators were accorded no divine' honours. The key to a just estimate of savage morality is knowledge of all the conditions. A custom that considered in itself is decidedly revolting may, on further acquaintance with the state of culture as a whole, turn out to be, if not praiseworthy, at least a drawback incidental to a normal phase of the ruder life of mankind.
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TO treat her as a goddess has always been ac counted a sure way of winning a lady's favour. To the cynic, therefore, it might seem. That Mrs. Mcgovern was bound to speak well of her head hunting friends oi the Formosan hills, seeing that they welcomed her With a respect that bordered on veneration. But of other head-hunters, hailing, say, from Borneo or from Assam, anthropologists have reported no less well, and that though the investigators were accorded no divine' honours. The key to a just estimate of savage morality is knowledge of all the conditions. A custom that considered in itself is decidedly revolting may, on further acquaintance with the state of culture as a whole, turn out to be, if not praiseworthy, at least a drawback incidental to a normal phase of the ruder life of mankind.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Janet B. Montgomery McGovern
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780265765036
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Page Count - 289
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781330769485
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
Page Count - 291
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