ANTH 3280 Lecture Notes - System On A Chip, Nei Lingding Island, Folk Psychology
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Freud thought he could give a story on how culture originated (influenced on australian aboriginal studies) is totemism part of religion or something else? old man rules over the younger man + daughters + sisters (claims this was the system of society) who regulated access to all of the women in the group + was in charge, and declared all of the women were his the other men were getting upset that the old man was keeping the man to himelf (highly patriarcal) the young men gather + decide to kill the old man and realize theyve done something sinful, terrible, wrong (killed their father), and are guilty so what do they do? totem + taboo; establish a number of things that should not be done/outline the sins = rules of society the rules of civilization having to do with sexuality and its distribution from one group to the other this agrees with the finings of psychoanalysis.
