Identifier: historyofmankind01ratz (find matches)
Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Tree-dwellings in South India. (After Jagor.) HABITA TIONS 109 In any classification of races according to their method of building, the lowestgrade will be held by nomadic hunting and fishing peoples of the type of theFuegians, the Bushmen, the Tasmanians, and many Australians, who inhabit nohuts built on a fixed plan or placed regularly together in villages, but put uptemporary shelters of brushwood and reeds. The tent-dwelling nomads, whethertheir tents be of leather like those of the Arabs, or of felt, the Mongol or Sifanyaourts, so far as plan goes, are not much superior to those above-mentioned ;but the necessity of guarding their herds has made it a characteristic of them all
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Fishing village on the Mekong. (From a photograph.) to be arranged in a circle ; and thus has grown up the more regular dispositioninside of a fence or boundary wall, with gates. These again suggest those partlyagricultural, partly nomadic Negroes who build huts of beehive or conical shape,in the most various stages of perfection. The Negroes of Central Africa who, fromUgogo all across to the Fan and Dualla countries, build rectangular houses withseveral rooms and ornamented doors, form the transition to the Malays ofMadagascar and the Indian Archipelago, and to the races of the Pacific, whoserichly-ornamented and often large houses, very various in design, offer the mostperfect work found in the way of timber-building among natural races. Amongthem, however, we find at the same time (as on Easter Island) the beginnings ofmasonry in connection with monumental sculpture. The Polar races live in stonebuildings or in huts in which snow takes the place of wood. A zone of stonehouses with

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