Method in the Study of Totemism
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Totemism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Totemism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Totemism |
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Author | : Claude Levi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-05-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0807046809 |
"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
Author | : Edmund Leach |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135032939 |
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.
Author | : Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-01-04 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0307813487 |
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.
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Blurb |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2019-01-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780368167058 |
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.
Author | : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth |
Publisher | : London : Tavistock Publications |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Myth |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Alun Jones |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2005-09-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231508778 |
Though it is now discredited, totemism once captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, James Frazer, and other prominent Victorian thinkers. In this lively intellectual history, Robert Alun Jones considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists drew on totemism to explore and define primitive and modern societies' religious, cultural, and sexual norms. Combining innovative readings of individual scholars' work and a rich portrait of Victorian intellectual life, Jones brilliantly traces the rise and fall of a powerful idea. First used to describe the belief systems of Native American tribes, totemism ultimately encompassed a range of characteristics. Its features included belief in a guardian spirit that assumed the form of an a particular animal; a prohibition against marrying outside the clan combined with a powerful incest taboo; a sacrament in which members of the totemic clan slaughtered a representative of the totemic species; and the tracing of descent through the female rather than the male. These attributes struck a chord with the late Victorian mentality and its obsession with inappropriate sexual relations, evolutionary theory, and gender roles. Totemism represented a set of beliefs that, though utterly primitive and at a great evolutionary distance, reassured Victorians of their own more civilized values and practices. Totemism's attraction to Victorian thinkers reflects the ways in which the social sciences construct their objects of study rather than discovering them. In discussing works such as Freud's Totem and Taboo or Frazer's The Golden Bough, Jones considers how theorists used the vocabulary of totemism to suit their intellectual interests and goals. Ultimately, anthropologists such as A. A. Goldenweiser, Franz Boas, and Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that totemism was more a reflection of the concerns of Victorian theorists than of the actual practices and beliefs of "primitive" societies, and by the late twentieth century totemism seemed to have disappeared altogether.
Author | : Lupa |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0738733377 |
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.
Author | : Claude Levi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1971-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780807046715 |
"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