Totemism and Exogamy Vol. I (in Four Volumes)

This classic four-volume series-from a pioneering ethnographer first published in 1910-remains a foundational work of comparative mythology and religion for scholars and armchair anthropologists alike. Exploring the interconnections between myth and ritual in how and whom we may marry-as group marriage gave way to individual marriage-questions about religion and social structure became intertwined. In any case this is a fascinating look at the social underpinnings common to all peoples around the globe. Volume I features a reprint of Frazers groundbreaking 1887 work Totemism-covering the religious side of totemism; individual totems; sex totems; and more-as well as additional hard-to-find essays by the author. Then begins Frazers ethnographic survey of totemism here covering totemism in Australia. Scottish anthropologist SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) also wrote the classic The Golden Bough (1890) Man God and Immortality (1927) and Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies (1935).