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The Golden Bough-Third Edition
(University of Fort Hare, 1912) J. G. Frazer
This is the third part of The Golden Bough which takes the question, why had the King of the Wood at Nemi regularly to perish by the hand of his successor? In the first part of the work, reasons for thinking that the priest of Diana, who bore the title of King of the wood beside the still lake among the Alban Hills, personated the great god Jupiter or his duplicate Dianus, the deity of the oak, the thunder and the sky.
Totemism and Exogamy- Volume 2
(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. Frazer
From the foregoing survey we may infer that totemism and exogamy , in one form or another, are or have been practised by all the aboriginal tribes of Australia. Passing now from Australia to the islands of Torres Straits, which divide Australia on the north from New Guinea, we shall find both totemism and exogamy in vogue also among the Western Islanders; for these people are, like the Australians, divided into exogamous totem clans and believe themselves to be united by certain intimate ties to their totems.
Totemism and Exogamy- Volume 3
(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. Frazer
The institution of totemism was first observed and described by Europeans among the Indian tribes of North America and it is known to have prevailed widely though by no means universally, among them. Within the great area now covered by the United States and Canada the system was most highly developed by the tribes to the east of the Mississippi, who lived in settled villages and cultivated the soil; it was practised by some but not all of the hunting tribes, who roamed the great western prairies and it was wholly unknown to the Californian Indians the rudest representatives of the Redskin race in North America, who had made little progress in the arts of life and in particular were wholly ignorant of agriculture.
Totemism and Exogamy- Volume IV
(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. Frazer
The main facts of totemism, so far as they have been reported on trustworthy authority and are known to me, have now been laid before the reader. it remains briefly to review them and to consider the general conclusions to which they point.