Social Anthropology: A Psycho-Analytic Study in Anthropology and a History of Australian Totemism - Paperback

by Géza Róheim (Author)

Dr Róheim, a young Hungarian anthropologist, whose work had already attracted the attention of English authorities, surveys totemism in the light of psychoanalytic knowledge in his book Social Anthropology originally published in 1925. The book is not a translation; it was written by Dr Róheim in English.

Author Biography

Géza Róheim was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and anthropologist. Considered by some as the most important anthropologist-psychoanalyst, he is often credited with founding the field of psychoanalytic anthropology; was the first psychoanalytically trained anthropologist to do field research; and later developed a general cultural theory.