Elements of Folk Psychology
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Elements of Folk Psychology presents itself as outlines of a psychological history of the development of mankind. The account describes totemic culture as giving way through gradual transitions to an age of heroes and gods, with individual rulership becoming permanent after being only temporary. The discussion connects the chieftain's growing power with a tribal community assuming military organization under pressure from struggles with hostile tribes, and describes society as developing into the State.
The account places the hero exalted as a leader in war within a world represented by heroic song or epic. The discussion of totemic dance identifies the mask as an added external feature whose origin is directly due to totem belief.
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- Author
- Wilhelm Max Wundt
- Pages
- 322
- Language
- English
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- Sociology
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