In the domain of material culture which I define as the expression of the social activities in utilising or— what is more significant—refusing to utilise the properties of the products of their immediate physical environment ;I2 PRIMITIVE CULTURE OF INDIA I seek the distinctive characteristic of the lower culture in the attitudes taken up in regard to the natural resources on which they are depen [...] We shall find our material among the folk that dwell in the jungles and inaccessible hills of the continent among that welter of tribes who nestle among the hills of Assam and Burma up to the Himalayas yielding evidence of their culture in the simple and elementary economic organistion in the characteristics of their speech as well as in the strength and persistence of sentiments which enwr [...] Attention must be given to the size of the groups classified as belonging to the lower culture in order to ascertain whether and how far we accept the general"20 PRIMITIVE CULTURE OF INDIA principle that on the whole aad in the long nm during the earlier stages of human evolution the complexity and coherence of the social order follow upon the size of the group ; which since its size in turn [...] Analysis of the facts recorded at the 1911 census (2) 'shows that one-eleventh of the population is supported by two-fifths of the total area of the Indian Empire ; that one-eleventh of the total area supports onthird of the population ; that the density ranges from one per square mile in Chagai in Baluchistan to nearly 2 000 per square mile in part of the Dacca district ; that density of popul [...] From elsewhere from America (715a) comes the proof of the extraordinary culture in matters of technique that may be reached by people ignorant of metal tools and examination of the products of the lower culture in any good museum will reveal the excellence of the products of what not unfairly may be called the wooden age as distinct from the stone age.
- Pages
- 136
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- India
- SARF Document ID
- sarf.147159
