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We must remember thai, "in barbarian and 

 savage conmnmiti.- tin- collective re-illation of life IN 

 not less but LM- .it.-r than it i- in the civilized state. Tin- 

 may be overstepped are narrow and dread. 

 Immemorial cu- and half of all the pee- 



si hie joys of existence are forbidden and taboo. 



the conscious cooperation of eld im-eiing the 



ing of children by young parents, by organized ini- 



'i ionics, by clan and tribal councils, each new 



generation is remorselessly M ln-liefs, habits 



and loyalties which the group regards as vital to its ex- 



<-e." 64 Thus beneficial innovation in means of pro- 

 dih tion is as likely as not to go contrary to some t 

 usage, and hence be repressed because, being new and 

 better, it might offend the spirit associated with the cus- 

 tomary way. 



ther hindrance to the development of production 

 must be men t ion. -.1. It should be remembered that 

 among primitive people agricultural and industrial ac- 

 tivities are usually earned on by the women of the com- 

 munity: 15 The woman of the family was the food 

 the weaver, the skin dresser, the potter, the 

 beast of t>ui 1 the "Jack les." The able- 



bodied men went on the chase, or went to war. Only 

 the old and decrepit, the weaklings and the sickly men 

 were left at home to stay with the women. These de- 

 spised individuals fell into the productive activities of 

 the women, weaving, dressing skins, pottery and other 

 occupations requiring a sedentary mode of life. These 

 occupations therefore, became associated with the weaker 



R*trr1. .infAropopnyropAy. vol. ii, p. 990. 



"Giddingt, "Social Sri: vlr. no. 4, 1900. 



M*on, O. T Woman'. Store in Primitive Cullmn, 1894. 



