406 Pages
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Routledge
410 Pages
by
Routledge
406 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dr. Levy-Bruhl presents a dramatic picture of the primitives who live in a world that is capricious, unpredictable, and unstable; under the power of spirits both good and evil, to be worshipped or propitiated by ceremonies, dances, and religious rites. Dr. Levy-Bruhl shows how the mind of the primitive has no conception of the world of abstract though, natural law, causation, and categories,... Read more
1. Good and bad luck 2. Dispositions 3. Dispositions (continued) 4. Ceremonies and dances 5. The worship of ancestors and the dead 6. Witchcraft 7. Transgressions and incest 8. Defilement and purification 9. Blood and its magic virtues 10. Blood and its sinister qualities 11. Some methods of purification 12. Some methods of purification (continued)
Biography
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French scholar trained in philosophy, who made contributions to the budding fields of sociology and ethnology. His primary field of study involved primitive mentality. Lévy-Bruhl was born in Paris. He was an anthropologist who wrote about the 'primitive mind'.
