The Primitive Mind and Modern Man

CONTENTS......Page 4
PREFACE......Page 6
Why Study Primitive Cultures?......Page 10
Cultural Relativism......Page 31
Apollonian and Dionysian Cultures......Page 38
Mana......Page 47
Animism......Page 59
Totemism......Page 86
Hunting and Cultivation Rituals......Page 93
Shamanism: The “Wounded Healer”......Page 105
Envy and the Evil Eye......Page 124
Altered States of Consciousness......Page 138
Trance and Possession States......Page 144
Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft......Page 161
Death by Suggestion: Voodoo Death, Taboo Death, and Pointing the Bone......Page 179
The Placebo Effect......Page 184
Dealing with Conflicts, Aggressive Impulses, Enemies and War......Page 187
Treatment of the Dead......Page 204
Potlatches......Page 214
Status, Prestige, Recognition-the Need for Social Approval......Page 220
Culture-Bound Syndromes......Page 226
Mass Hysteria, Mass Possession......Page 244
Folk Medicine......Page 250
The Treatment and the Role of Women in Primitive Cultures......Page 261
Child Rearing and the Treatment of Children in Primitive Cultures......Page 270
Cargo Cults......Page 276
Nomadic Peoples: A Case Study of the Batek People of Malaysia......Page 282
REFERENCES......Page 290
APPDENDIX......Page 306
INDEX......Page 326