IX: TOTEMISM AND EXOGAMY* 



IT is now some forty years ago since McLennan, 

 in his work on Primitive Marriage, first really 

 attracted the attention of scholars to the two 

 customs which form the title of the work under 

 review. He was not the first to refer to these cus- 

 toms, since totemism as a term seems to have been 

 originally introduced by J. Long, an Indian 

 interpreter, in 1791, and the custom of exogamy, 

 though that name was not then given to it, was 

 outlined by Latham in 1859. But ^ ma 7 saie ty be 

 said that it was not until McLennan's work had 

 appeared that any real discussion over these matters 

 arose. 



Since then have appeared innumerable books 

 and papers on these subjects, amongst which 

 Baldwin Spencer and Gillen's accounts of the 

 Central Australian Tribes, Frazer's article on 

 " Totemism " in the penultimate edition of the 

 Encylco'pcectia Britannica, subsequently published 

 in a separate volume and republished as the first 

 part of Vol. I of his present work, and Andrew 

 Lang's Secret of the Totem (Longmans. 1905) may 

 be specialy noted. Finally, these ripples on the 

 sea of knowledge have been succeeded by the vast 

 billow of Totemism and Exogamy, a four-volume 



* Totemism and Exogamy: A Treatise on Certain Early Forms 

 of Superstition and Society. By J. G. Frazer, D.C. L. , etc. 4 vols. 

 pp. xix 2,181, with maps. London : Macmillan an4 Co. 1910. 



