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ethnic complex so it trlcnte and obscure that no single o <e has 
ns yet been exha us lively studied a. d placed on record* 
In the conferences of the Section attention wn© giver, 
in certain measure to (1) the: origin, development, character- 
istics , and .-‘elation; hips of the 500 or more Tnnin: dis tributed 
over the continent fro:*) -Mask: to Patagonia; (2) to the problems 
of the social Institutions which , /then -'.s terod, i ’ 1 be cone 
available to the historian of the rice i • his efforts to de- 
termine the processes and laws o. t the evolution of civilized 
1 ns i i tu t Ions I ( 5 ) to the p rob leras of t: in dive rr 1 fie d £ ys terns 
of beliei which men have devised to explain the mye torios of the 
cosmos and of their environment -v;k? toeir Motions Uu.ro to, 
a.*ui to the endless array* ol devices - the rites and ceremonies ~ 
hy miDi of «hi#tt frlialtiw Mn hm on ;-u, and 
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seeds to 
influence tlie deities whicu no has created; (4, to the problem© 
of technology which Involve tine cone Iteration of each and every 
-art ar d to ;n to mm$ '■ Me activities by means of 
