Revival
Subtitle: Primitives and the Supernatural
By: Lucien Lecy-Bruhl
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781315122472
Subjects: Supernatural; Ethnopsychology; Primitive societies; Surnaturel; Ethnopsychologie; Homme primitif
Description: "Dr. Levy-Bruhl presents a dramatic picture of the primitives who live in a world that is capricious, unpredictable, and unstable; under the power of spirits both good and evil, to be worshipped or propitiated by ceremonies, dances, and religious rites. Dr. Levy-Bruhl shows how the mind of the primitive has no conception of the world of abstract though, natural law, causation, and categories, which has been opened up to the mind by science and philosophy. In addition, the author explains omens, talismans, amulets, ancestor worship, witchcraft, insect, defilement, and purification as fundamental parts of the primitive existence."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter The Affective Category of the Supernatural  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter I Good and Bad Luck  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter II "Dispositions"  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter III "Dispositions" (contd.)  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter IV Ceremonies and Dances  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter V The Worship of Ancestors and of the Dead  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter VI Witchcraft I  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter VII "Transgressions" and Incest  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter VIII Defilement and Purification  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter IX Blood and Its Magic Virtues  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter X Blood and Its Sinister Qualities  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter XI Some Methods of Purification  -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl; title: chapter XII Some Methods of Purification (contd.) -- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl.