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The SS (which included not only battle units but also researchers and scholarly experts) mounted an expedition to Tibet in order to make discoveries in the fields of alpinism and ethnology, and another one to the Arctic, ostensibly for scientific research but also with a view to the possible situation of a German military base.— WAR OF PERCEPTION
Even in England there are straight-haired and curly-haired Romanys, the two indicating not a difference resulting from white admixture, but entirely different original stocks It will, I trust, be admitted, even from these remarks, that Romanology, or that subdivision of ethnology which treats of gypsies, is both practical and curious.— The Gypsies
The ethnology, the physical geography, the climate, the religion, the products of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, so far as they are peculiar to Russia, will some day become reflected into the national art.— Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
Such are some of the universally interesting questions which I attempt to solve by an analysis of the simple faiths of a savage race If in so doing I succeed in investing with a more general interest the fruitful theme of American ethnology, my objects will have been accomplished PHILADELPHIA April, 1868 CONTENTS CHAPTER I GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE RED RACE PAGE Natural religions the unaided attempts of man to find out God, modified by peculiarities of race and nation.--The peculiarities of the red race: 1.— The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

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