The Secret of the Totem
Religion and Society from McLennan to Freud
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, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists drew on totemism to explore and define primitive and modern societies' religious, cultural, and sexual norms. Combining innovative readings of individual scholars' work and a rich portrait of Victorian intellectual life, Jones brilliantly traces the rise and fall of a powerful idea. First used to de…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-50877-3
- EAN: 9780231508773
- Produktnummer: 22651854
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'382 KB
- Abbildungen: spot art
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Robert Alun Jones
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