Totemism and Exogamy: a Treatise on Certain Early Forms of Superstition and Society

Abstract

PROF. FRAZER is a great artist as well as a great anthropologist. He works on a big scale; no one in any department of research, not even Darwin, has employed a wider induction of facts. No one, again, has dealt more conscientiously with each fact; however seemingly trivial, it is prepared with minute pains and cautious tests for its destiny as a slip to be placed under the anthropological microscope. He combines, so to speak, the merits of Tintoretto and Meissonier. What, then, we may ask, of the philosophical result, of the theory which should emerge from all this acreage of minute workmanship?

Totemism and Exogamy: a Treatise on Certain Early Forms of Superstition and Society.

By Prof. J. G. Frazer. In four vols. Vol. i., xix + 579; vol. ii., ix + 640; vol. ii., ix + 583; vol. iv., v + 379; eight maps. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1910.) Price 2l. 10s. net the four vols.