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The secret of the totem : religion and society from McLennan to Freud /

Robert Alun Jones examines the contentious development of the concept of totemism during the Victorian era. Totemism, whose features include the veneration of an animal or plant, the prohibition of incest, and matrilineal descent, captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Sir James...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Jones, Robert Alun
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Totemism as animal worship
  • 2. Totemism as sacrament
  • 3. Totemism as utility
  • 4. Totemism as self-transcendence
  • 5. Totemism as neurosis.