(BOOK)-Totemism
From the back cover This work is significant not only for students of anthropology but for students of philosophy and psychology as well The distinguished anthropologist Claude LéviStrauss examines here the great variety of beliefs encompassed by totemism the attacks to which it has been subject and the constant attempts to restore useful meaning to it His account deals with the views of such renowned anthropologists as Boas van Gennep Elkin Fortes Firth EvansPritchard and RadcliffeBrown it also brings to light some neglected observations by Bergson and Rousseau In reviewing the major theories about totemism the author notes that it has gradually come to be understood not as a distinctive institution but as a way of thinking which is as characteristic of our own thinking as it is of the primitives for whom totemism was an integral part of life
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