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The Secret of The Totem

The Secret of The Totem

Lang, Andrew

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ISBN10: 1514840960
ISBN13: 9781514840962
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 6 2015
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.36 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
[...]inspired by some supernatural being, such as Kutchi of the Dieri, Bunjil of the Wurunjerri, or Daramulun of the Coast Murring,[5] is only rendered possible by the existence, to-day, of social conditions which cannot be primitive. To-day the Tribe, with its innumerable rules, and its common faith in Kutchi or Daramulun, with its recognised local or social Headmen, with its regulations for dealing with other tribes, and with its heralds or messengers, is an institution in being. But, necessarily, this was not always so; the Tribe itself is a great conquest of culture, and that conquest must have been made very slowly. The prevalent fallacy, then, is to take unconsciously for granted that the people was, from the beginning, regimented into tribes, or existed in hordes already as capable as actual tribes of deliberative assemblies and legislative action, and that, in these hordes, a certain law, the universal basis of their social[...].

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