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, ...

"[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 ...

Instead of seeking to define totemism by induction, this tiny book dissolved it and showed that it was an illusory creation of anthropology itself. For generations, anthropologists had worried about ...

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 ...

As I write this, it is illegal throughout the United Kingdom to have a drink in a pub, to sit in a café, or to meet with a neighbor in your own garden unless he or she is a member of what government ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Design Indaba 2013: Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort curated an exhibition drawing parallels between the Italian Memphis movement of the 1980s and contemporary South African design at Design Indaba ...

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 ...