And as thou namest them, I will describe them (Shakespeare)

Petticoats in frouzy heaps.

This action altered his behaviour for the time being, but in the evening he escaped again at the hsien-town of Shangnan.…At Shangnan the population was complaining of the same drought that had hindered us from getting a boat at Lungchüchai; and in the evening the villages fromed a long procession firing crackers and beating gongs, in order to induce the rain-joss to send some water.

An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab- stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves, the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive differentiation which the paleontologist sees in the evolution of species.