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The Secret of the Totem

Andrew Lang

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. . .on, it was even more wrong than it had been before, to marry "within the blood" of the animal, as, for Emu to marry Emu. Or (f2) the small groups did marry within themselves till, after receiving animal names, they evolved the superstition that such marriage was a sin against the animals, and so became exogamous.

On the point of the original state of society conjecture seems to be limited to this field of possible choices. At least I am acquainted with no theory hitherto propounded, which does not set out from one or other of these conjectural bases. We must not attack each other's ideas merely because they start from conjectures: they can start in no other way. Our method must be to discover which conjecture, as it is developed, most consistently and successfully colligates all the ascertained facts and best endures the touchstone of logic.

Of the hypotheses enumerated above, the system to be advocated here is that marked (f 1 and 2). Men, whatever the. . . Read More

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كتاب مهم عن الطوطمية و احدى الكتب الاساسية لكل باحث في شؤون الطوطمية.
الفه الكاتب الاسكتلندي اندريو لانغ عام 1905 و فيه حديث عن نظريته الخاصة عن نشأة الطوطمية و رد على كبار الانثربولوجيا مثل فريزر و دوركهايم و هيويت و هيل توت و غيرهم.