Social Origins

Предна корица
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 311 страници
Family structure; totemism and exogamy; class system marriage divisions; Arunta totems and myths.

Между кориците на книгата

Съдържание

Други издания - Преглед на всички

Често срещани думи и фрази

Популярни откъси

Страница 313 - CUSTOM AND MYTH: Studies of Early Usage and Belief.
Страница 207 - Therefore, looking far enough back in the stream of time, and judging from the social habits of man as he now exists, the most probable view is that he aboriginally lived in small communities, each with a single wife, or if powerful with several, whom he jealously guarded against all other men.
Страница 313 - THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF RELIGION, as illustrated by the Religions of India. The Hibbert Lectures, delivered at the Chapter House, Westminster Abbey, in 1878.
Страница 207 - ... agree that but one adult male is seen in a band ; when the young male grows up, a contest takes place for mastery, and the strongest, by killing and driving out the others, establishes himself as the head of the community.
Страница 207 - We may indeed conclude from what we know of the jealousy of all male quadrupeds, armed, as many of them are, with special weapons for battling with their rivals, that promiscuous intercourse in a state of nature is extremely improbable.
Страница 312 - Balfour.— THE FOUNDATIONS OF BELIEF : being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology. By the Right Hon. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR.
Страница 313 - INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION : Four Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution. Crown 8vo., 3s. 6d. NATURAL RELIGION. The Gifford Lectures, delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1888.
Страница 169 - To me, judging of the possible feelings of the pristine ancestors of the Australians by their descendants of the present time, it seems most improbable that any such nicknames would have been adopted and have given rise to totemism, nor do I know of a single instance in which such...

Библиография