Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
The making of the local tribe of savagery--Earliest known stage of society--Result of complex processes--Elaborate tribal rules--Laws altered deliberately: sometimes borrowed--Existing legislative methods of savages not primitive--The tribe a gradual conquest of culture--The t...
The making of the local tribe of savagery--Earliest known stage of society--Result of complex processes--Elaborate tribal rules--Laws altered deliberately: sometimes borrowed--E...
2. CHAPTER IIMethod of inquiry--Errors to be avoided--Origin of totemism not to be looked for among the "sports" of socially advanced tribes--Nor among tribes of male reckoning of descent--N...
3. Chapter VI., criticism of Dr. Pikler). Mr, McLennan merelymentioned to me, in conversation, this idea, which he later abandoned. It had previously occurred to Garcilasso de la Vega that the _germ_ of totemism was to be found in the mer...
4. CHAPTER IIIWhy did man, if once promiscuous, regulate the relations of the sexes?--Theory of Professor Spencer--Animal-named magical societies were prior to regulation of marriage--Theory...
5. CHAPTER IVHow could man, if promiscuous, cease to be so?--Opinion of Mr. Howitt--Ethical training in groups very small, by reason of economic conditions--Likes and dislikes--Love and jeal...
6. CHAPTER VTheories of Dr. Durkheim--Was man originally promiscuous?--Difficulty of ascertaining Dr. Durkheim's opinion--Apparent contradictions--Origin of totemism--A horde, which did not...
7. CHAPTER VIMr. Darwin's theory of man's early social condition--Either men lived in male communities, each with his own female mates, or man was solitary, living alone with his female mate...
8. CHAPTER VIIHow phratries and totem kins were developed--Local animal-named groups would be exogamous--Children in these will bear the group names of their mothers--Influence of tattooing--...
9. CHAPTER VIIIOn our theory, in each phratry there should be a totem kin of the phratry name--If not, fatal to Dr. Durkheim's and Mr. Frazer's theories, as well as to ours--The fact occurs in...
10. CHAPTER IXThe totemic redistribution--The same totem is never in both phratries--This cannot be the result of accident--Yet, originally, the same totems must have existed in _both_ phratr...
11. Chapter IV.)It is clear that the first great change in evolution was the addition to the rule, "No marriage in the local group of animal name," of the rule, "No marriage in the animal name...
12. CHAPTER XMatrimonial classes--Their working described--Prevent persons of successive generations from intermarrying--Child and parent unions forbidden in tribes without matrimonial class...
13. CHAPTER XIMr. Frazer's latest theory--Closely akin to that of Professor Spencer--Arunta totemism the most archaic--Proof of Arunta primitiveness--Their ignorance of the facts of procreati...