The Elementary Forms of the Religious LifeFirst published 1912 under title Les formes elementaires de la vie religieuse...; Definition of religious phenomena & religion; totemic beliefs - as name and as emblem, designs, sacred character of ritual objects; relationship between totemic animal and man; cosmological system of totemism, classification of things into clans, phratries & classes; individual & sex totem; origin of beliefs (commenting on Frazer, Lang & Hill Tout); analysis of the idea of the soul (Strehlow & Spencer); ascetic rites, elements of sacrifice - Intichiuma ceremony; mortuary rites of Warraminga & Arunta; Mainly quotes Spencer & Gillen. |
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part of the totemic principleExamination of the facts col | 16 |
lective soulThe idea of the soul is not chronologically after | 27 |
Definition of Religious Phenomena and of Religion | 37 |
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according altjira ancestor animal or plant animistic Année Sociologique Arunta attributed Australian Baiame believed body Brough Smyth Buddhism Bunjil cause ceremonies characteristic churinga clan classes collective conceived conception contrary cult dead divine dreams Encounter Bay essential Euahlayi example existence Exogamy explain express fact Frazer frequently gods Haida Hill Tout Howitt human Ibid idea individual totem interdictions Intichiuma Kamilaroi kangaroo Kurnai ligion living magic Max Müller means Melanesians merely mind moral mythical mythology myths nature necessary notion nurtunja object observed organization origin phenomena phratry primitive principle profane Queensland reality reason relations religion religious forces representations represented rites ritual rôle sacred character sacred things seems sentiments social society sometimes sort soul species Spencer and Gillen spirits Strehlow theory tion to-day tribes true Tylor Warramunga Wiradjuri Wollunqua word Wotjobaluk