Totemism in India

By:

Ferreira,John V

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London; Oxford Univeristy Press; 1965Description: 304pSubject(s):

Totemism

DDC classification:

307.7 Fer

Summary: In the thirty years since Hermann Niggemeyer's study of totemism in India was published, much new material concerning the tribes of Central India-the stronghold of totemistic beliefs according to Niggemeyer-has become available. A fresh appraisal of the nature and extent of totemic beliefs in India has been undertaken in the present work, not only in the light of this new material but also in the light of recent theoretical studies such as J. Hackel's Zum Heutigen Forschungsstand der historischen Ethnologie and in the light of relatively new interests like acculturation and the dynamics of culture change. This is a somewhat modified version of a dissertation prepared at the Ethnological Institute of the University of Vienna. The author is now Reader in Cultural Anthropology in the University of Bombay.

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In the thirty years since Hermann Niggemeyer's study of totemism in India was published, much new material concerning the tribes of Central India-the stronghold of totemistic beliefs according to Niggemeyer-has become available. A fresh appraisal of the nature and extent of totemic beliefs in India has been undertaken in the present work, not only in the light of this new material but also in the light of recent theoretical studies such as J. Hackel's Zum Heutigen Forschungsstand der historischen Ethnologie and in the light of relatively new interests like acculturation and the dynamics of culture change.
This is a somewhat modified version of a dissertation prepared at the Ethnological Institute of the University of Vienna. The author is now Reader in Cultural Anthropology in the University of Bombay.

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