Author: Andrew LangPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Totemism
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Method in the Study of Totemism
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Author: Claude Levi-StraussPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807046809
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure." – Commentary
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Author: Edmund LeachPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135032939
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Lévi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.
Totem and Taboo
Author: Sigmund FreudPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307813487
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
In this brilliant exploratory attempt (written in 1912–1913) to extend the analysis of the individual psyche to society and culture, Freud laid the lines for much of his later thought, and made a major contribution to the psychology of religion. Primitive societies and the individual, he found, mutually illuminate each other, and the psychology of primitive races bears marked resemblances to the psychology of neurotics. Basing his investigations on the findings of the anthropologists, Freud came to the conclusion that totemism and its accompanying restriction of exogamy derive from the savage’s dread of incest, and that taboo customs parallel closely the symptoms of compulsion neurosis. The killing of the “primal father” and the consequent sense of guilt are seen as determining events both in the mistry tribal pre-history of mankind, and in the suppressed wishes of individual men. Both toteism and taboo are thus held to have their roots in the Oedipus complex, which lies at the basis of all neurosis, and, as Freud argues, is also the origin of religion, ethics, society, and art.
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Author: Association of Social Anthropologists of the CommonwealthPublisher: London : Tavistock Publications
ISBN:
Category : Myth
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Totemism
Author: Andrew LangPublisher:
ISBN: 9788826420387
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Totemism
Author: Andrew LangPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3748189621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Is there any human institution which can be safely called "Totemism"? Is there any possibility of defining, or even describing Totemism? Is it legitimate-is it even possible, with due regard for "methodology" and logic-to seek for the "normal" form of Totemism, and to trace it through many Protean changes, produced by various causes, social and speculative? I think it possible to discern the main type of Totemism, and to account for divergences.
Totemism
Author: Claude Levi-StraussPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807046715
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure." – Commentary
New Paths to Animal Totems
Author: LupaPublisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738733377
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Describes three methods for working with animal totems, outlining directions for creating a totem cosmology, focusing on local ecosystems, and using personality traits and experiences in learning to connect with a personal animal spirit.