Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER in. ETHNOGRAPHIC NOTES ON THE ETRUSCAN PEOPLE. The three Ethnologic Methods: Philology, Anthropology, and Psychology?Application of the last Method?Ethnologic Importance of the Constructive Arts?The Tomb-builders?Turanian Tombs express the Turanian Faith?Affinities of the Tomb-builders?The three civilised Races of Tomb-builders: Lycians, Egyptians, and Etruscans. 1. The Etruscan Tombs?The two Types?The Tumulus or Tent- tomb?The Stone Circle?Hut Urns?The Gallery?The Cave- tomb?Imitation of the House?Family Sepulture?The Funeral Feast?The Analogies of Egyptian and Lycian Tombs. 2. The Etruscan Priesthood?Sorcery. 3. The Law of Inheritance?Survivals indicating Tribal Polyandria ?Exogamy?Inheritance through the Mother. 4. Type of Body. 6. Type of Mind. 6. Etruscan Art?Love of Colour?Etruria and Tuscany. 7. The Etruscan Isolation?Aryan Nations occupy continuous Areas?Isolation of the Ugric Nations: Mongolic, Turkic, Satno- jedic, and Finnic? Ugric Isolation accounted for?History of Ugric Migration?Migrations of Mongols, Tunguses, Avars, Cumanians, Seljuks, Huns, Sulgars, Alans, Magyars, Medes?The Isolation of the Etruscans makes it probable that they were Ugric Migrants? Parallels between the Etruscans, the Osmanti, and the Magyars?The Ugric Nature of the Etruscan Government. There are three chief methods of research which are open to the student of ethnology. THE THREE ETHNOLOGIC METHODS. 81 The first is the method of comparative philology ?the most powerful, the most precise, and, within its proper limits, the most certain of all methods. But, valuable as the method is, it has its limitations and its dangers. It is almost as easy, and almost as frequent, for nations to change their language as to change their domicile. What ha…
