PROF. FRAZER is a great artist as well as a great anthropologist. He works on a big scale; no one in any department of research, not even Darwin, has employed a wider induction of facts. No one, again ...

"[T]his volume derives mainly from material presented at a conference on recent anthropological studies of myth and totemism sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth ...

(2) The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion. By Prof. J. G. Frazer. Third edition. Part ii., Taboo and the Perils of the Soul. Pp. xv + 446. (London ...

Ch. 1. The totemic illusion -- ch. 2. Australian nominalism -- ch. 3. Functionalist theories of totemism -- ch. 4. Toward the intellect -- ch. 5. Totemism from within siris_sil_904354 ...

I only knew that, after dozens of stodgy, fact-obsessed fieldwork studies by British Commonwealth anthropologists, the book came as rather more than a breath of fresh air: it was a whirlwind. Instead ...

KALIHI (KHNL) - Pa'a Ka La'a Animism and Totemism: Contemporary Expressions from an Indigenous Mind opens at Bishop Museum's Vestibule Gallery December 15, 2006 and remains on view through April 22, ...

Animals have long served as totems - or emblems of clans or families - that are sometimes considered to have magical qualities. Magic might not help conserve species ...

ORAL history and legend has it that traditionalists used totemism as a safety-catch against environmental degradation. Through the art of totemism, plant species that couched medicinal and other ...