Primordial Characters
by Rodney Needham
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"Covers myth, witchcraft, iconography, fiction, dreams, and seeks to find common ground in anthropology, psychology, and history. It calls upon the findings of world ethnography as well as on ideas and experiences familiar to any reflective individual. Rodney Needham demonstrates a method of cultural analysis made possible by the discrimination of primary human characteristics, and he investigates (through a study of the image of the witch) the imaginative tendency to synthesize primary show more factors into archetypes"--Publisher description. show lessTags
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- Anthropology, Sociology, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 301.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Culture and cultural processes
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- GN502 .N43 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Anthropology Anthropology Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology Cultural traits, customs, and institutions Psychological anthropology
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