Section F 



ANTHROPOLOGY and PHILOLOGY 



ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT: 



EDWARD TREGEAR 



{DepL of Labour, Wellington, N.Z.) 



[The text of the Address was not available at the time of going 

 to press]. 



PAPERS READ IN SECTION F. 



1.— THE CONCEPTIONAL THEORY OF THE ORIGIN OF 



TOTEMISM. 



By the REVD. GEORGE BROWN, D.D. 



One of the most valuable books ever published on this subject 

 is undoubtedly Dr. Frazer's great work on Totemism and Exogamy, 

 which has recently been issued by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. It 

 is scarcely possible to over-estimate the importance and value of 

 the vast stores of information which Dr. Frazer has accumulated 

 and given to the world. The Ethnographical Survey of Totemism, 

 which forms the principal portion of the work, fully accomplishes 

 the aim of the author " to provide students with what may be 

 called a digest or corpus of totemism and exogamy," and the 

 reader is filled with wonder how any single man could have gathered 

 together such a large number of facts from so many countries 

 and from so large an area. 



Dr. Frazer, for reasons given, has discarded his former views 

 of the origin of totemism, and now finds what he considers to 

 be a complete and adequate explanation of the origin of totemism 

 in what he calls the conceptional theory. What is meant by this 

 will, I think, be made clear by the following extract from the 

 author's " Summary and Conclusion," vol. 4, pp. 57-8. After 



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