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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1910 Edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Containing Chapters On Decorative Art Of British New Guinea, The
Decorative Transformation Of Natural Objects And The Reasons For
Which Objects Are Decorated.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Containing Chapters On Decorative Art Of British New Guinea, The
Decorative Transformation Of Natural Objects And The Reasons For
Which Objects Are Decorated.
The Torres Straits separates Australia from Papua New Guinea left
untouched by European hands until the 18th Century. It has a rich
mythology weaving Papuan and Aboriginal traits. A collection of
moral tales and creation myths. Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing
these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions,
using the original text and artwork
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Contents: Magic: contagious magic; homeopathic magic; magical power
of names and words; talismans and amulets; divination; public and
private magic; magicians; psychology of magical practices;
Fetishism: definition; essential characters of fetishism; fetishism
as a form of religious worship.
'A pioneer of modern anthropology', A. C. Haddon (1855 1940)
contributed to the fields of embryology and evolutionary science
before turning his interests to human civilisation and its history.
In this work, first published in 1910, Haddon makes use of his
wide-ranging knowledge of folk rituals and religious beliefs to
introduce readers to basic principles of sympathetic magic,
divination, talismanic powers and fetishism. A strong believer in
the importance of preserving local religious practices and beliefs,
Haddon uses the work to document customs from Britain to West
Africa, America to Australia. Topics include forms of contagious
magic, premised on a mutual influence between objects; amulets and
talismans; magical names and words; and divination. In the second
portion of the book, devoted to fetishism, Haddon offers an
authoritative description of the fetish as a 'habitation, temporary
or permanent, of a spiritual being', establishing basic definitions
for an important field of cultural research.
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