Totemism

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Beacon Press, 1963 - Philosophy - 116 pages
"Levi-Strauss continues his assault on the myth of the primitice as savage by turning to the phenomena of totemism an totoemix classification ... to show, contrary to this myth, that primitive thought rests upon a rich and complex conceptual structure." –  Commentary

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Contents

THE TOTEMIC ILLUSION
15
AUSTRALIAN NOMINALISM
33
FUNCTIONALIST THEORIES OF TOTEMISM
56
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology".