This book, first published in 1935, collects together material on the origins of religion from two very different sources. South America, where the author spent six years studying the religious beliefs and customs of several Indian tribes representing different stages of culture; and the Finno-Ugrian area, where Finnish and Russian ethnologists had brought to light a new body of facts which formed an important addition to our knowledge of religious life at an early stage of cultural development. This book is a key work in the study of comparative religion, and is an essential reference...
This book, first published in 1935, collects together material on the origins of religion from two very different sources. South America, where the...
This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many disciplines. The volume begins with a sympathetic but critical examination of Levi-Strauss s interpretation of mythology. Professor Munz points out the deficiencies in structuralist interpretations, and takes Levi-Strauss s neglect of the historicity of all myths as a starting-point for an alternative approach to mythology. Myths, he argues, come in typological series. If the whole series is read...
This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging impli...
The object of this book, first published in 1928, is a study of the ways in which those who were once called primitives conceive of their own individuality. The author inquires into the notions they possess of their life-principle, their soul, and their personality, often encountering that many peoples only had pre-notions of such concepts."
The object of this book, first published in 1928, is a study of the ways in which those who were once called primitives conceive of their own indiv...
For good or ill, most, if not all, of the great institutions which have formed the framework of society have had their roots in the idea of Deity as a beneficent providential order of transcendental reality. In being handed down through countless generations the beliefs, concepts and customs have assumed a great variety of new outward forms in the process of transmission and development. To determine their true meaning and function as a cohesive force and as an expression of ultimate reality, the comparative and historical methods can be employed with considerable advantage. This book,...
For good or ill, most, if not all, of the great institutions which have formed the framework of society have had their roots in the idea of Deity a...
In this book, first published in 1948, an attempt has been made to provide an intelligible introduction to a somewhat complex aspect of scientific inquiry. And secondly, to construct a background of primitive ritual and belief against which the more developed religions can be placed. This book is a valuable, early attempt at explaining the beginnings of religion from a modern scientific viewpoint."
In this book, first published in 1948, an attempt has been made to provide an intelligible introduction to a somewhat complex aspect of scientific ...
This collection of previously out-of-print titles brings togther some key texts from the early study of the anthropology of religion. An important reference collection, these books will prove invaluable to students of religion and anthropology.
This collection of previously out-of-print titles brings togther some key texts from the early study of the anthropology of religion. An important ref...
This book, first published in 1917, investigates the rites and beliefs of people who had remained in a primitive state of culture throughout the ages. Special attention was paid to the ritual and mythology of the Aborigines of Australia, in what was then some of the first studies of their beliefs."
This book, first published in 1917, investigates the rites and beliefs of people who had remained in a primitive state of culture throughout the ag...
