The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions, by Carveth Read, M.A

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Author

Read, Carveth, 1848-1931

Title

The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, eagkw and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

GN: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Anthropology

Subject

Animism

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46884

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46884

Release Date

September 17, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ORIGIN OF MAN AND OF HIS SUPERSTITIONS
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.CHAPTER I ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF MAN FROM THE ANTHROPOIDS — § 1. The Hypothesis — § 2. What the Hypothesis Explains — § 3. Minor and Secondary Consequences — § 4. Prey and Competitors — § 5. Conclusion
5. 5.CHAPTER II ON THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE HUMAN FROM THE ANTHROPOID MIND — § 1. Heredity, Adaptation, Accommodation — § 2. The Original Stock and the Conditions of Differentiation — § 3. Primal Society — § 4. Psychology of the Hunting-pack — § 5. The Wolf-type of Man established by Natural Selection — § 6. Some further Consequences of the Hunting-life — § 7. Moralisation of the Hunters — § 8. Influence of the Imaginary Environment
6. 6.CHAPTER III BELIEF AND SUPERSTITION — § 1. Superstition — § 2. Imagination — § 3. Belief — § 4. Causes and Grounds of Belief — § 5. The Beliefs of Immature Minds — § 6. The Reasoning of Immature Minds — § 7. General Ideas at the Savage Level — § 8. The Weakness of Imagination-beliefs
7. 7.CHAPTER IV MAGIC — § 1. Antiquity of Magic — § 2. What is Magic? — § 3. The Beginnings of Magic — § 4. Magical Force and Primitive Ideas of Causation — § 5. Magic and Mystery — § 6. Volitional Magic — § 7. The Evolution of Magic—Direct Magic — § 8. Indirect or “Sympathetic” Magic — § 9. The Dissolution of Magic
8. 8.CHAPTER V ANIMISM — § 1. What is Animism? — § 2. Psychological Animism — § 3. The Ghost Theory — § 4. Extension of the Ghost Theory to Animals — § 5. Ghosts and Soul-stuff — § 6. Ghosts and Spirits — § 7. How Ghosts and Spirits are imagined — § 8. Origin and Destiny of Souls — § 9. The Treatment of Ghosts — § 10. Evolution and Dissolution of Animism
9. 9.CHAPTER VI THE RELATIONS BETWEEN MAGIC AND ANIMISM — § 1. The Question of Priority — § 2. Magic and Religion — § 3. Ideas and Practices of Magic adopted by Animism — § 4. Retrogradation — § 5. Spirits know Magic, teach it, and inspire Magicians — § 6. Spirits operate by Magic — § 7. Spirits are controlled by Magic
10. 10.CHAPTER VII OMENS — § 1. The Prevalence of Omens — § 2. Omens and Natural Signs — § 3. Some Signs Conceived of as Magical — § 4. Differentiation of Omens from General Magic — § 5. Omens Interpreted by Animism — § 6. Natural and Artificial Omens — § 7. Divination and Oracles — § 8. Apparent Failure of Omens — § 9. Apology for Omens
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII THE MIND OF THE WIZARD — § 1. The Rise and Fall of Wizardry — § 2. The Wizard’s Pretensions — § 3. Characteristics of the Wizard — § 4. The Wizard and the Sceptic — § 5. The Wizard’s Persuasion
12. 12.CHAPTER IX TOTEMISM — § 1. Meaning and Scope of Totemism — § 2. Of the Origin of Totemism — § 3. The Conceptional Hypothesis — § 4. Andrew Lang’s Hypothesis — § 5. Totemism and Marriage — § 6. The Clansman and his Totem — § 7. Totemism and Magic — § 8. Totemism and Animism
13. 13.CHAPTER X MAGIC AND SCIENCE — § 1. Their Common Ground — § 2. The Differentiation — § 3. Why Magic seems to be the Source of Science — § 4. Animism and Science
14. 14.INDEX
15. 15.FOOTNOTES:

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