Social Origins and Primal Law

Name: Social Origins and Primal Law
Author: J. J. (James Jasper) Atkinson

by J. J. (James Jasper) Atkinson, Andrew Lang

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive)

Release date

2014-05-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Marriage -- History Totemism

About the authors

J. J. (James Jasper) Atkinson

d. 1899

An amateur anthropologist and station owner in New Caledonia, he left behind an unfinished but influential study of kinship, taboo, and early social rules. His work, published after his death, caught the attention of readers interested in the origins of family life and morality.

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Andrew Lang

1844–1912

Best known for the beloved Fairy Books, this Scottish writer brought folk tales, myths, and legends to generations of readers. He was also a remarkably wide-ranging man of letters whose work stretched across poetry, fiction, history, and anthropology.

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