Social Anthropology: A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism

by Géza Róheim

Numerous have been the attempts to unveil what Andrew Lang called the Secret of the Totem, a question upon which Sir J. G. Frazer once said he had changed his views repeatedly and was prepared to change them with every new piece of evidence.

Dr R heim, a young Hungarian anthropologist, whose work had already attracted the attention of English authorities, surveys totemism in the light of psychoanalytic knowledge in his book Social Anthropology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032949627
• ISBN13: 9781032949628
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 484 Pages