The Secret of the Totem : : Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud /

The Secret of the Totem : : Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud / / Robert Alun Jones.

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Though it is now discredited, totemism once captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, James Frazer, and other prominent Victorian thinkers. In this lively intellectual history, Robert Alun Jones considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Jones, Robert Alun,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; spot art
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. Totemism as Animal Worship
  • 2. Totemism as Sacrament
  • 3. Totemism as Utility
  • 4. Totemism as Self-Transcendence
  • 5. Totemism as Neurosis
  • Conclusion. The Secret of the Totem
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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