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This chapter provides a review of some of the inferences about both language structure and cultural content that can be extracted from the lexicons of Formosan languages. It provides a window on structural features of the vocabulary of PAn as well as many aspects of the physical environment and culture of the speakers of this language. Reconstructed forms depend on the subgrouping assumed for the AN languages on the basis of exclusively shared innovations in phonology that are not likely to be products of convergence.

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Modernization and conversion to world religions are threatening the survival of traditional belief systems, leaving behind only mysterious traces of their existence. This book, based upon extensive research conducted over a period of nearly four decades, brings scientific rigor to one of the questions that have always attracted human curiosity: that of the origin of the dragon.
The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.
In: The Dragon and the Rainbow
In: The Dragon and the Rainbow
In: The Dragon and the Rainbow
In: The Dragon and the Rainbow
In: The Dragon and the Rainbow
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In: The Dragon and the Rainbow
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