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  • Totem and Totemism

    Origin and Theories

    by Andrew Lang, C. S. Wake ...
    The question of the origin of totemism has more than the merely curious or antiquarian interest of an historic or prehistoric mystery. In the course of the inquiry we may be able to discern and discriminate the relative contributions of unreflecting passion, on one hand, and of deliberate reason, on the other, to the structure of the earliest extant form of human society.The word ‘Totem’ is taken ... Read more

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  • A Mountain In Tibet

    The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia

    by Charles Allen ...
    Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. Close by are the sources of four mighty rivers: the sacred Ganges, the Indus, the Sutlej and Tsangpo ... Read more

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  • Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    This vintage book comprises three famous Malinowski essays on the subject of religion. Malinowski is one of the most important and influential anthropologists of all time. He is particularly renowned for his ability to combine the reality of human experience, with the cold calculations of science. An important collection of three of his most famous essays, "Magic, Science and Religion" provides ... Read more

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  • The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life by Emile Durkheim. ... Read more

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  • The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

    by W. Scott-elliot ...
    For readers unacquainted with the progress that has been made in recent years by earnest students of occultism attached to the Theosophical Society, the significance of the statement embodied in the following pages would be misapprehended without some preliminary explanation. Historical research has depended for western civilisation hitherto, on written records of one kind or another. When ... Read more

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  • Baloma; the Spirits of the Dead in the Trobriand Islands

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    Among the natives of Kiriwina, death is the starting point of two series of events which run almost independently of each other. Death affects the deceased individual; his soul (baloma or balom) leaves the body and goes to another world, there to lead a shadowy existence. His passing is also a matter of concern to the bereft community. Its members wail for him, mourn for him, and celebrate an ... Read more

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  • The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables

    by B.R.Ambedkar ...
    The Untouchables Who Were They And Why They Became Untouchables ? by B.R.AmbedkarThis book is a sequel to my treatise called The Shudras—Who they were and How they came to be the Fourth Varna of the Indo-Aryan Society which was published in 1946. Besides the Shudras, the Hindu Civilisation has produced three social classes whose existence has not received the attention it deserves. ... Read more

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  • Folklore and Mythology

    by Andrew Lang ...
    After the heavy rain of a thunderstorm has washed the soil, it sometimes happens that a child, or a rustic, finds a wedge-shaped piece of metal or a few triangular flints in a field or near a road. There was no such piece of metal, there were no such flints, lying there yesterday, and the finder is puzzled about the origin of the objects on which he has lighted. He carries them home, and the ... Read more

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  • The Secret of the Totem

    by Andrew Lang ...
    This book is the natural sequel of Social Origins and Primal Law, published three years ago. In Primal Law, Mr. J. J. Atkinson sought for the origin of marriage prohibitions in the social conditions of early man, as conceived of by Mr. Darwin. Man, in the opinion of the great naturalist, was a jealous animal; the sire, in each group, kept all his female mates to himself, expelling his adolescent ... Read more

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  • Islanded

    Britain, Sri Lanka, and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony

    by Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    A groundbreaking retelling of the advent of British rule in Sri Lanka.How did the modern nation of Sri Lanka come to be? In search of an answer to this question, Islanded returns us to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and to the advance of the British on the kingdom of Kandy. This advance saw the fall of the last foothold of kingly rule, centered in the highlands of the island. ... Read more

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  • Custom and Myth

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Since the first publication of Custom and Myth, many other works have appeared, dealing on the same principles with matters of belief, fable and ritual. Were the book to be re-written, numerous fresh pieces of evidence might be adduced in support of its conclusions. In Mr. Frazer’s Golden Bough (Macmillan) the student will find a carefully conceived argument, and a large collection of testimonies, ... Read more

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  • Totemism

    by Andrew Lang ...
    Is there any human institution which can be safely called "Totemism"? Is there any possibility of defining, or even describing Totemism? Is it legitimate—is it even possible, with due regard for "methodology" and logic—to seek for the "normal" form of Totemism, and to trace it through many Protean changes, produced by various causes, social and speculative? I think it possible to discern the main ... Read more

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