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CHAPTER VII
Work in Stone and Metals 115
Types of Artifacts 118
Mines and Quarries 123
Metal Work 124
CHAPTER VIII
Special Inventions 127
CHAPTER IX
The Fine Arts 134
Literature 137
Music 145
CHAPTER X
Social Grouping 149
The Local Group 153
Clans and Gentes 154
Dual Divisions 158
Relationship Systems 159
Taboos and Social Privileges 161
Age Grades and Societies 162
Totemic Features 163
CHAPTER XI
Social Regulation 166
Conceptions of Property and Inheritance 173
Marriage Regulations 175
Education and General Discipline 177
CHAPTER XII
Ritualistic Observances 180
Supernatural Guardians and Totemism 185
Shamanism 187
The Personal Relation in Ritualism 191
CHAPTER XIII
Mythology 194
Mythology and Religious Conceptions 198
Unity of New World Culture 202