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Item The Golden Bough(University of Fort Hare, 1911) J. G. Frazer, et al.The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of savages. In the Polynesians tongue, from which we have adopted it, the word designates a remarkable system which has deeply influenced the religious, social and political life of the oceanic islanders, both Polynesians and Melanesians, particularly by incubating a superstitious veneration for the persons of nobles and the rights of private property.Item Jacobsens Index of Objectionable Literature(University of Fort Hare, 1956) Jacobsens PublishersThis Index of Objectionable Literature leaves this office fully up to date. The service under this scheme will supply you with "fresh" pages, per post, whenever an alteration, addition or deletion is published in the weekly Government Gazette. We need not stress the utmost importance of keeping your Index of Objectionable Literature fully up to date, this is very essential, and if not done the Index of Objectionable Literature will be of very little use for you. A complete list of all publications in alphabetical order together with authors. Prohibited from importation into the Republic of South Africa, and all other banned literature.Item Letter Book(University of Fort Hare, 1908) Synod of KaffariaA letter book of the Synod of Kaffaria dating from 1908-1933 mostly written by J Lennox.Item Totemism and Exogamy- Volume 3(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. FrazerThe 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.Item Totemism and Exogamy- Volume IV(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. FrazerThe 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.Item Totemism and Exogamy- Volume 2(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. FrazerFrom 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.Item Totemism and Exogamy- Volume I(University of Fort Hare, 1910) J. G. Frazer et al.The man who more than any other deserves to rank as the discoverer of totemism and exogamy was the Scotchman John Ferguson McLennan. It was not that he was the first to notice the mere existence of the institution in various races nor even that he added very much to our knowledge of them. But with the intuition of genius, he perceived or divined the far-reaching influence which in different ways he two institutions have exercised on the history of society. McLennan's discovery of exogamy attracted attention and excited discussions; his discovery of totemism made comparatively little stir, and outside of a small circle of experts it passed almost unnoticed in the general world of educated opinion.Item The Golden Bough-Third Edition(University of Fort Hare, 1912) J. G. FrazerThis 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.