506 ANTHEOPOLOGY. 



Just liere a word of caution may not go amiss. Collectors of objects 

 for autliropological museums should be careful to note with reference 

 to each specimen the source of the material, all the tools employed in 

 its elaboration, the caste or sex to which its use is relegated, the time 

 o'' season of the manufacture, the craft processes and the ceremonies 

 observed, the variety and range of products in fineness, form and func- 

 tion. 



YIII. — SOCIOLOGY. 



The term " sociology" as a philologic hybrid is not entirely satisfac- 

 tory, but it could not now be easilj^ displaced, nor is it indeed easy to 

 substitute a better word. The summary of progress in anthropology 

 each year exhibits a gratifying progress in sociology. The recognition 

 of the oneness of all human phenomena gives value to the social structure 

 of even the lowest tribes. We seem to hear in the songs and dances of 

 the savage Indians the echoes of our own priscan history. Our own Bu- 

 reau of Ethnology is not behind in this matter. Major Powell has worked 

 out the Wyandotte scheme, and has elaborated a series of charts by 

 means of wliich the clan and the family organization of any people may 

 be exhibited. 



The inspection of the list of works will show how these investigations 

 have ramified into every department of society, including marriage and 

 family life, tribal structure and functions, political institutions, acqui- 

 sition, tenure, and cession of property, fashions, economics, statistics, 

 education, disease, crime, and death. 



IX. — DAIMONOLOGY, OR PNEUMATOLOGY. 



It is easier to indicate what is included in this class than to find a 

 name. As regards any set of human activities we have to inquire by 

 whom, with what, and how. It may be the making of a pot. If so- 

 then society is organized into those who make and those for whom they 

 make. Again, the clay must be taken from a certain place at a certain 

 time, and with appropriate ceremonies; the effect depending quite as 

 much upon the method as upon the material or the implement. Further, 

 more, there are certain tools useful to the potter only ; and finally the 

 finished product of his art passes on to be the implement of some other 

 craft, say the water seller, the cook, or the caterer. 



liTow, if we desire to study the religions of the world we must have 

 a museum containing models of typical sacred inclosures or edifices, 

 together with all the furniture belonging thereto. This will not suffice; 

 we must have mannikins dressed to resemble all the servitors in these 

 temples, let us call them. Even that would be dead religion. Eor these 

 figures must move, they must go through every performance which 

 enters into their ritual and liturgy, observing carefully the right posture, 

 saying the right words, at the proper time of the day, or of the mouth, 

 or of the year. After all this would be more interesting than com- 



