Social Anthropology
A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism
- 488 pages
- English
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Social Anthropology
A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism
About this book
Numerous have been the attempts to unveil what Andrew Lang called the Secret of the Totem, a question upon which Sir J. G. Frazer once said he had changed his views repeatedly and was prepared to change them with every new piece of evidence.
Dr Róheim, a young Hungarian anthropologist, whose work had already attracted the attention of English authorities, surveys totemism in the light of psychoanalytic knowledge in his book Social Anthropology originally published in 1925. Freud and Rivers are pioneers in this field but Róheim's work is the first attempt to submit a specific anthropological question to detailed psychoanalytical investigation. In result, it will be seen that the application of the investigations of unconscious mental processes in the individual to a study of the Australian native give a profound meaning and universal psychologic significance to customs whose understanding has hitherto baffled scholarship. The book is not a translation; it was written by Dr Róheim in English.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Author's Preface
- Contents
- Maps
- List of Tribes
- Abbreviations
- Chapter I The Proto-Totemic Complex in South East Australia
- Chapter II Sex-Totems
- Chapter III The Negative Totemism of the South Eastern Tribes
- Chapter IV The Alcheringa Myth
- Chapter V Conceptional Totemism
- Chapter VI Intichiuma Ceremonies
- Chapter VII History And Development Of Australian Totemism. Summary And Conclusions
- Notes and Addenda
- Index
- List of Authorities