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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

CHAPTER VI

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ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS--(_continued_) _The Notion of the Totemic Principle, or Mana, and the Idea of Force_ I.--The notion of the totemic force or principle--Its ubiquity-- Its character at once physical and moral 188 II.--Analogous conceptions in other inferior societies--The gods in Samoa, the wakan of the Sioux, the orenda of the Iroquois, the mana of Melanesia--Connection of these notions with totemism--The Arunkulta of the Arunta 191 III.--Logical priority of impersonal force over the different mythical personalities--Recent theories which tend to admit this priority 198 IV.--The notion of religious force is the prototype of that of force in general 203
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1. Chapter 1 2. INTRODUCTION 3. BOOK I 4. CHAPTER I 5. CHAPTER II 6. CHAPTER III 7. CHAPTER IV 8. BOOK II 9. CHAPTER I 10. CHAPTER II 11. CHAPTER III 12. CHAPTER IV 13. CHAPTER V 14. CHAPTER VI 15. CHAPTER VII 16. CHAPTER VIII 17. CHAPTER IX 18. BOOK III 19. CHAPTER I 20. CHAPTER II 21. CHAPTER III 22. CHAPTER IV 23. CHAPTER V 24. INTRODUCTION 25. BOOK I 26. CHAPTER I 27. CHAPTER II 28. CHAPTER III 29. CHAPTER IV 30. BOOK II 31. CHAPTER I 32. CHAPTER II 33. CHAPTER III 34. CHAPTER IV 35. CHAPTER V 36. CHAPTER VI 37. CHAPTER VII 38. CHAPTER VIII 39. CHAPTER IX 40. BOOK III 41. CHAPTER I 42. CHAPTER II 43. CHAPTER III 44. CHAPTER IV 45. CHAPTER V 46. 131. Here are designs, many of which evidently have the object of 47. 339. Must we see a trace of sexual totemism in the following custom of

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