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Elements of Folk Psychology

by Wilhelm Wundt

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  1. 1Translator’s Preface
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Elements of Folk Psychology Introduction
  4. 4Chapter I — Primitive Man
  5. 52 — The Culture of Primitive Man in Its External Expressions
  6. 63 — The Origin of Marriage and the Family
  7. 74 — Primitive Society
  8. 85 — The Beginnings of Language
  9. 96 — The Thinking of Primitive Man
  10. 107 — Earliest Beliefs in Magic and Demons
  11. 118 — The Beginnings of Art
  12. 129 — The Intellectual and Moral Characteristics of Primitive Man
  13. 13Chapter II — The Totemic Age
  14. 142 — The Stages of Totemic Culture
  15. 153 — Totemic Tribal Organization
  16. 164 — The Origin of Exogamy
  17. 175 — Modes of Contracting Marriage
  18. 186 — The Causes of Totemic Exogamy
  19. 197 — The Forms of Polygamy
  20. 208 — The Developmental Forms of Totemism
  21. 219 — The Origin of Totemic Ideas
  22. 2210 — The Laws of Taboo
  23. 2311 — Soul Beliefs of the Totemic Age
  24. 2412 — The Origin of the Fetish
  25. 2513 — The Animal Ancestor and the Human Ancestor
  26. 2614 — The Totemic Cults
  27. 2715 — The Art of the Totemic Age
  28. 28Chapter III — The Age of Heroes and Gods
  29. 292 — The External Culture of the Heroic Age
  30. 303 — The Development of Political Society
  31. 314 — Family Organization Within Political Society
  32. 325 — The Differentiation of Classes
  33. 336 — The Differentiation of Vocations
  34. 347 — The Origin of Cities
  35. 358 — The Beginnings of the Legal System
  36. 369 — The Development of Penal Law
  37. 3710 — The Differentiation of Legal Functions
  38. 3811 — The Origin of Gods
  39. 3913 — Cosmogonic and Theogonic Myths
  40. 4014 — The Belief in Souls and in a World Beyond
  41. 4115 — The Origin of Deity Cults
  42. 4216 — The Forms of Cult Practices
  43. 4317 — The Art of the Heroic Age
  44. 44Chapter IV — The Development to Humanity
  45. 452 — World Empires
  46. 463 — World Culture
  47. 474 — World Religions
  48. 485 — World History

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