1st Edition

Revival: The Mystic Rose (1960) A Study of Primative Marriage and of Primitive Thought in Its Bearing on Marriage

By Ernest Crawley Copyright 1960
746 Pages
by Routledge

742 Pages
by Routledge

742 Pages
by Routledge

All study of the origins of social institutions must be based on what ethnology can tell us of the psychology of the lower races and on the primitive conceptions of human relations which are thus established. It is only in early modes of thought that we can find the explanation of ceremonies and systems which originated in primitive society; and, if ceremony and system are the concrete forms in... Read more

1. Introductory 2. Taboo 3. Sexual Taboo 4. Human Relations 5. Human Relations (cont.) 6. Human Relations (concluded) 7. Commensal Relations 8. Sexual Relations 9. Sexual Relations (continued) 10. The breaking of taboo 11. Theory of union 12. Theory of change and exchange

Biography

Ernest Crawley