Totems of the Dead
Author : Matthew Kaiser
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
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ISBN : 9780857441065
Author : Matthew Kaiser
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
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ISBN : 9780857441065
Author : Matthew E. Kaiser
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2012-01-18
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ISBN : 9780857441225
Author : Matthew E. Kaiser
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 2012-01-18
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ISBN : 9780857441263
Author : James George Frazer
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 33,76 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Attachment behavior
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Author : John Norman
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148049948X
On a primitive planet, the missing link may be the aliens living there in this novel of discovery and danger from the author of the Gorean Saga. In a far-off future, two anthropologists—gross, powerful, dissolute Emilio Rodriguez, and aspiring, young, naïve Allan Brenner, who, unbeknownst to himself, carries ancient genes of a sort no longer welcome on Home World—have been assigned to conduct a study on Abydos, a deeply forested wilderness planet of little note whose only evidence of civilization is a single enclave: small, rough, dingy Company Station, a fueling station occasionally utilized by star freighters. Within the forest, some days from Company Station, are the Pons, a group of small, simian‑type organisms that seem near the crossroads between animal and rational creature, between nature and culture. They would appear to constitute an ideal object of study with respect to the origins and foundations of civilization. How it came about, so to speak, that something once emerged from the lair, or cave, that was so radically different? What lies at the beginning? The results of the study have already been politically prescribed on Home World, that the Pons are to shed light on humanity, that it is, in its original and unspoiled nature, polite, sweet, kind, deferent, diffident, social, noncompetitive, and innocent. Both Rodriguez and Brenner have a trait in common, however, which may explain why they have been sent—exiled, in a sense—to such an out‑of‑the‑way locale. Both seek the truth. They enter the forest.
Author : William Graham Sumner
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Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Sociology
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Vols. 1-3 paged continuously. Vol. 4 by W.G. Sumner, A.G. Keller, and M.R. Davie."Published under the auspices of the Sumner Club on the foundation established in memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the class of 1894, Yale College." "Bibliographical note": v. 4, p. [1193]-1268.
Author : J.G. Frazer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1847675344
The authoritative 1890 edition with an introduction by Cairns Craig and Frazer’s own afterword. Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic led Scottish anthropologist J.G. Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. His observations on the mysteries of fertility and death, and the rites of the sacrificial king who must die to save his people, overturned much of contemporary intellectual thinking, not least because of the enlightening or ‘heretical’ parallels it suggested with the Christian religion. Frazer’s elegant and authoritative style, and the breadth of his learning inspired a whole generation of ethnographers and comparative anthropologists, and had a particularly powerful effect on many other thinkers and writers such as Sigmund Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Joyce, Yeats and T.S. Eliot. This definitive volume includes the unabridged original 1890 edition as well as several essays and lectures by Frazer. ‘Frazer’s work has epic scale yet mesmerizing fineness of detail. We see the great structures of civilization forming and melting against a background of elemental mystery. The effect is cinematic and sublime.’ Camille Paglia
Author : Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734046106
Reproduction of the original: Our Little Alaskan Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet
Author : Katie Langloh Parker
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Euahlayi (Australian people)
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Belief in Supreme Being; male and female descent; relationship terms (with mention of Vic., N.T. tribes); list of totems; totemic food taboos; medicine men; witch woman and native remedies; bonepointing; belief in spirits; conception beliefs; childhood customs; betrothal; firemaking; bullroarers; message sticks; initiation ceremonies & corroborees; mourning & funeral; legends & cosmology; hunting finding food & cooking; clothing & body painting; weapons; recreations; childhood songs & song about Byamee (texts with translations); Glossary (379 words).
Author : Sir James George Frazer
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1605209791
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 totemism in the South Pacific, India, and Africa. Scottish anthropologist SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) also wrote the classic The Golden Bough (1890), Man, God, and Immortality (1927), and Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies (1935).