Author: Numelin, Ragnar
Title: The Wandering Spirit: A Study of Human Migration
Description: Copenhagen/London, Hagerup/Macmillan, 1936. orig.wrappers. 26x18cm, xvi,375 pp, Unopened. Some soil to cover.. Some rubbing. Small cover smudge. VG. ¶ Contents: Foreword by Dr. Edward Westermarck; The Wandering Phenomena; The Problem of the Wanderings; The Wanderings of Animals; The Migration Legends of Primitive Peoples; Typical Wandering Peoples: The Human Stages of Economic Development; The Lowest Wandering Peoples; Typical Wandering Peoples: Nomadism; Transhumance; The Geographical Conditions for Wanderings; Robbery & Warlike Tendencies as Reasons for Migrations; Commercial Motives; Magical & Religious Motives; Some Parallels to Migratory Movements Drawn from History: General Cases; The Wandering Instinct of the Gypsies; The Wandering Impulse & Psychoanalysis; Social & Religious Laxity as Contributory Causes of Primitive Wandering Life; The Wandering Spirit.

Keywords: Nomadism, Transhumance, Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, Nomads, Social Psychology, Gypsies,