THE SECRET OF THE TOTEM

BY

ANDREW LANG

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

NEW YORK AND BOMBAY

1905

	I.	ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM
	II.	METHOD OF INQUIRY
	III.	THEORY OF PRIMAL PROMISCUITY
	IV.	THE ARUNTA ANOMALY
	V.	THE THEORIES OF DR. DURKHEIM
	VI.	THE AUTHOR'S THEORY
	VII.	RISE OF PHRATRIES AND TOTEM KINS
	VIII.	A NEW POINT EXPLAINED
	IX.	TOTEMIC REDISTRIBUTION
	X.	MATRIMONIAL CLASSES
	XI.	MR. FRAZER'S THEORY OF TOTEMISM

APPENDIX: AMERICAN THEORIES

INTRODUCTION

This book is the natural sequel of Social Origins and Primal Law,published three years ago. In Primal Law, Mr. J. J. Atkinson soughtfor the origin of marriage prohibitions in the social conditions ofearly man, as conceived of by Mr. Darwin. Man, in the opinion of thegreat naturalist, was a jealous animal; the sire, in each group,kept all his female mates to himself, expelling his adolescent maleoffspring. From this earliest and very drastic restriction, Mr.Atkinson, using the evidence of "avoidances" between kinsfolk insavage society, deduced the various prohibitions on sexual unions. Hisingenious theory has been received with some favour, where it has beenunderstood.

Mr. Atkinson said little about totemism, and, in Social Origins,I offered a theory of the Origin of Totemism; an elaboration of theoldest of all scientific theories, that of Garcilasso de la Vega, anInca on the maternal side, the author of the History of the Incas.Totems, he conceived, aros

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