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E-text prepared by Clare Graham, Heather Strickland, and Marc D'Hooghe (http://www.freeliterature.org) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY
OUTLINES OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL HISTORY
OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANKIND
BY
WILHELM WUNDT
AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION
BY
EDWARD LEROY SCHAUB, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy in Northwestern University
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
PREFACE
CONTENTS
ELEMENTS OF FOLK PSYCHOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
PRIMITIVE MAN
1. THE DISCOVERY OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
2. THE CULTURE OF PRIMITIVE MAN IN ITS EXTERNAL EXPRESSIONS.
3. THE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY.
4. PRIMITIVE SOCIETY.
5. THE BEGINNINGS OF LANGUAGE.
6. THE THINKING OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
7. EARLIEST BELIEFS IN MAGIC AND DEMONS.
8. THE BEGINNINGS OF ART.
9. THE INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PRIMITIVE MAN.
CHAPTER II
THE TOTEMIC AGE
1. THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF TOTEMISM.
2. THE STAGES OF TOTEMIC CULTURE.
3. TOTEMIC TRIBAL ORGANIZATION.[1]
4. THE ORIGIN OF EXOGAMY.
5. MODES OF CONTRACTING MARRIAGE.
6. THE CAUSES OF TOTEMIC EXOGAMY.
7. THE FORMS OF POLYGAMY.
8. THE DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS OF TOTEMISM.
9. THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMIC IDEAS.
10. THE LAWS OF TABOO.
11. SOUL BELIEFS OF THE TOTEMIC AGE.
12. THE ORIGIN OF THE FETISH.
13. THE ANIMAL ANCESTOR AND THE HUMAN ANCESTOR.
14. THE TOTEMIC CULTS.
15. THE ART OF THE TOTEMIC AGE.
CHAPTER III
THE AGE OF HEROES AND GODS
1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE HEROIC AGE
2. THE EXTERNAL CULTURE OF THE HEROIC AGE.
3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL SOCIETY.
4. FAMILY ORGANIZATION WITHIN POLITICAL SOCIETY.
5. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CLASSES.
6. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF VOCATIONS.
7. THE ORIGIN OF CITIES.
8. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM.
9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PENAL LAW.
10. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF LEGAL FUNCTIONS.
11. THE ORIGIN OF GODS.
13. COSMOGONIC AND THEOGONIC MYTHS.
14. THE BELIEF IN SOULS AND IN A WORLD BEYOND.
15. THE ORIGIN OF DEITY CULTS.
16. THE FORMS OF CULT PRACTICES.
17. THE ART OF THE HEROIC AGE.
CHAPTER IV
THE DEVELOPMENT TO HUMANITY
1. THE CONCEPT 'HUMANITY.'
2. WORLD EMPIRES.
3. WORLD CULTURE.
4. WORLD RELIGIONS.
5. WORLD HISTORY.
INDEX
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