Adress to the anthropological section

A.C Haddon (1)

1 School of Anthropology

So much has been written of late on totemism that I feel some diffidence in burdening still further the literature of the subject. But I may plead a slight claim on your attention, as I happen to be an unworthy member of the Crocodile kin of the Western tribe of Torres Straits, and I have been recognised as such in another island than the one where I changed names with Maiuo, the chief of Tutu, and thereby became a member of his kin. I do not intend to discuss the many theories about totemism, as this would occupy too much time ; nor can I profess to be able to throw much light upon the problems connected with it; but I chiefly desire to place before you the main issues in as clear a manner as may be, and I venture to offer for your consideration one way in and some ways out of totemism...

Mots clés: totemism

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

A.C Haddon. Adress to the anthropological section. British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp.15, 1902. ⟨halshs-00751445⟩