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x, 349 pages 22 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338) Part I: Man and reality -- I. The distinctive ways of primitive cultures -- II. Myth, cult and play -- III. Myth and cult in the state of application -- Part II: Deity, sacrifice, and ethos -- IV. High god and dema-deity -- V. Culture heroes and astral deities as dema -- VI. The master of the animals -- VII. Social organization, totemism, and their ties with religion -- VIII. Ritual killing and blood-sacrifice -- IX. The religious ethos -- Part III: Magic -- X. The theory of Pre-animistic magic -- XI. Shamanism as expression of genuine magic -- XII. Cult and magic -- Part IV: Souls, ancestor cults, and spirits -- XIII. Tylor's theory of animism -- XIV. The divine soul -- XV. Ancestor cults and monistic offerings -- XVI. The spirits

Author

Adolf Ellegard Jensen; Marianna Tax Choldin; Wolfgang Weissleder; University of Chicago Press

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

1963

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226398242