27
The native tribes of Central Australia von Baldwin Spencer und H. J. Gillen, London 1891.
28
There is nothing vague or mystical about it, nothing of that metaphysical haze which some writers love to conjure up over the humble beginnings of human speculation but which is utterly foreign to the simple, sensuous, and concrete modes of the savage (Totemism and Exogamy, I., p. 117).
29
l. c. p. 120.
30
L'année sociologique, T. I., V., VIII. und an anderen Stellen. S. besonders die Abhandlung Sur le totémisme, T. V., 1901.
31
Social Origins und Secret of the Totem.
32
The Golden Bough II., p. 332.
33
»It is unlikely that a community of savages should deliberately parcel out the realm of nature into provinces, assign each province to a particular band of magicians, and bid all the bands to work their magic and weave their spells for the common good.« T. and Ex. IV., p. 57.
34
T. and Ex. II., p. 89 und IV., p. 59.