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The secret of the totem : religion and society from McLennan to Freud / Robert Alun Jones.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00639394 | Recorded BooksPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0231508778
  • 9780231508773
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret of the totem.DDC classification:
  • 201/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • GN489 .J65 2005eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Totemism as animal worship -- 2. Totemism as sacrament -- 3. Totemism as utility -- 4. Totemism as self-transcendence -- 5. Totemism as neurosis.
Summary: Robert Alun Jones examines the contentious development of the concept of totemism during the Victorian era. Totemism, whose features include the veneration of an animal or plant, the prohibition of incest, and matrilineal descent, captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Sir James Frazer, and other Victorian thinkers. Jones's work combines innovative readings of individual scholars' works with a rich portrait of Victorian intellectual life. Jones considers the divergent ways thinkers drew on totemism to explore religious, cultural, and sexual norms for a civil society. He also examines the reasons behind totemism's eventual demise within intellectual circles.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)141370

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Robert Alun Jones examines the contentious development of the concept of totemism during the Victorian era. Totemism, whose features include the veneration of an animal or plant, the prohibition of incest, and matrilineal descent, captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Sir James Frazer, and other Victorian thinkers. Jones's work combines innovative readings of individual scholars' works with a rich portrait of Victorian intellectual life. Jones considers the divergent ways thinkers drew on totemism to explore religious, cultural, and sexual norms for a civil society. He also examines the reasons behind totemism's eventual demise within intellectual circles.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Totemism as animal worship -- 2. Totemism as sacrament -- 3. Totemism as utility -- 4. Totemism as self-transcendence -- 5. Totemism as neurosis.