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01 Boas Modern Life and Primitive Culture
01 Boas Modern Life and Primitive Culture
01 Boas Modern Life and Primitive Culture
northern Vancouver Island, which are each divided of decidedly distinct ideals makes it exceedingly diffi-
into a considerable number of clans or family groups cult for new types of thought to develop. It does
of conflicting interests. Solidarity does not extend be- occur every now and then that a person does not
yond the limits of the clan. For .this reason conflicts fit temperamentally into his culture, as for instance
imid, unambitious nobleman or an aggressive, am-