Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: totemism
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1971-06-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 080704671X
ISBN-13: 9780807046715

Totemism is a Beacon Press publication.

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: volumes, four, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 602
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1605209783
ISBN-13: 9781605209784

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume I features a reprint of Frazer’s groundbreaking 1887 work Totemism-coveri

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: four, volumes, iii, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1605209805
ISBN-13: 9781605209807

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume III continues Frazer’s ethnographic survey of totemism, here covering tot

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: volumes, four, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 652
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 1605209791
ISBN-13: 9781605209791

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume II continues Frazer’s ethnographic survey of totemism, here covering tote

Author: Sir James George Frazer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: volumes, four, vol, exogamy, totemism
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2010-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1605209813
ISBN-13: 9781605209814

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer, first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case, this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume IV includes the author’s summary and conclusion, errata, maps, and the in

Author: Gerald Massey
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: language, forms, fetishism, tattoo, totemism
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1605203041
ISBN-13: 9781605203041

So ancient was Totemism in Egypt that the Totems of the human Mothers had become the signs of Goddesses, in whom the head of the beast was blended with the figure of the human female. The Totems of the human Mothers had attained the highest status as Totems of a Motherhood that was held to be divine, the Motherhood in Nature which was elemental in its origin. —from “Totemism, Tattoo and Fetishism as Forms of Sign Language” It goes unappreciated by modern Egyptologists, but it is embraced by those who savor the concept of a “hidden history” of humanity, and those who approach all

Author: Edmund Leach
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: anthropology, ethnography, library, editions, routledge, myth, structural, study, totemism
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-04-30
List price: $205.00
ISBN-10: 0415330726
ISBN-13: 9780415330725

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 publishe