Rest Days is a 1916 scholarly essay collection by anthropologist Hutton Webster. It examines the custom of periodic rest days in early societies, tracing how such days related to law, morality, and social custom. It offers a thoughtful historical perspective on an everyday institution.
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REST DAYS
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REST DAYS
A Study in Early Law and Morality
BY
HUTTON WEBSTER, Pƒ.D.
PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
AUTHOR OF “PRIMITIVE SECRET SOCIETIES”
“The study of their own species is doubtless the most interesting and important that can claim the attention of mankind; and this science, like all others, it is impossible to improve by abstract speculation, merely. A regular series of authenticated facts is what alone can enable us to rise towards a perfect knowledge in it.”—WƗƯƯƗĵƽ MĵǡǪŠŧƿ, The History of
Sumatra, London, 1811, Preface.
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916 All rights reserved CLjǙΏǡƗƄƒǵ, 1916, BΏ THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set up and printed. Published May, 1916. Norwood Press J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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