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 ...

"[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 ...

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 ...

"Because they do not sugarcoat the harshness of the initial situations or the brutality of the hardships encountered, but rather lead the heroes to show initiative in transcending this violence, ...