Primitive Time-reckoning / A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

by Martin P. Nilsson

[1129] Powers, p. 305.

[1130] Cp. Mauss, Essai sur les variations saisonnières des sociétés Eskimos, L’année sociologique, 9, 1904–5, pp. 96 ff. That the time of freedom from work should become a festival time is obvious and is simpler than Mauss seems to think; the point deserved noting among other peoples also.

[1131] Cp. my Årets folkliga fester, p. 161.

[1132] Pp. [320 ff].

[1133] [Above, pp. 151 ff].

[1134] Du Pratz, II, 354 ff.

[1135] Foa, p. 120.

[1136] Nisbet, II, 287.

[1137] Kötz, p. 21.

[1138] P. 331; cp. the handbooks, and Förster’s essay.