The Reinvention of Primitive Society : Transformations of a Myth (Paperback)

PART ONE: THE IDEA OF PRIMITIVE SOCIETY

1. The Myth of Primitive Society
2. Barbarian, Savage, Primitive

PART TWO: ANCIENT LAW, ANCIENT SOCIETY AND TOTEMISM

3. Henry Maine’s Patriarchal Theory
4. Lewis Henry Morgan and Ancient Society
5. The Question of Totemism

PART THREE: EVOLUTION AND DIFFUSION ? BOAS, RIVERS AND RADCLIFFE-BROWN

6. The Boasians and the Critique of Evolutionism
7. From Rivers to Radcliffe-Brown

PART FOUR: DESCENT AND ALLIANCE

8. Descent Theory: a Phoenix From the Ashes
9. Towards the Intellect: Alliance Theory and Totemism

PART FIVE: BACK TO THE BEGINNING

10. The return of the native

11. Conclusion