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Lamps of anthropology
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Title
Lamps of anthropology, by John Murphy.
Published
[Manchester, Eng.] Manchester university press, 1943.
Physical Description
ix, 179 p. 19 cm.
Notes
Essays and papers.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
Publications of the University of Manchester, no. CCLXXXI
Bibliography
Bibliographical foot-notes.
Contents
Horizons of the science and bibliography.
Outgrown theories of comparative religion.
The theory of an original monotheism.
The place of fear in early religion.
Imagination and the early forms of religion.
Gesture, magic and primitive art.
The primitive character of poetic genius.
The development of the civilized mind in the ancient civilizations.
The development of individuality in the ancient civilizations.
The Indus civilization.
Racial crossing and cultural efflorescence.
The limitations of language in philosophy and theology.
The child, the primitive, and society.
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