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Historical SummaryRemoval from exposure to the total environmental situation, including land, home, "the old familiar faces," "the old oaken bucket," etc., is accompanied by the discomfort called homesickness, unless, as among ourselves, the discontinuity of the exposure has been great owing to facilitated transportation and communication, the dissipation of primary groups, and the free circulation of individuals who, like Stefansson’s dogs, have acquired cosmopolitan tastes. Among primitives also acute distress may follow the removal from accustomed scenes. Gusinde says of a girl among the Ona, a tribe at the southern extremity of South America:
[A few weeks before my return Yoni married Himsuta and brought her from Rio del Fuego.] I often saw her squatting sadly in her hut with her face turned toward her former home. When I asked, "Why so sad?" tears came to her eyes and she always answered, "I feel so lonesome here. I wish I were with my parents." This in spite of the fact that her husband was very kind to her and the other women of the camp very sympathetic. Only the birth of her first child brought a change in her state of mind.3
3Gusinde, M.n/an/an/an/an/a, , 1: 334.
Chicago: Dis Feuerland Indianer in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed May 18, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Y15X7X7ZAUNQDC1.
MLA: . Dis Feuerland Indianer, Vol. 1, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 18 May. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Y15X7X7ZAUNQDC1.
Harvard: , Dis Feuerland Indianer. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 18 May 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=Y15X7X7ZAUNQDC1.
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