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Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind

by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1832–1920)

52 chapters, about 190,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 1,900 words
3. PREFACE 1,000 words
4. CHAPTER I--PRIMITIVE MAN 300 words
5. CHAPTER II--THE TOTEMIC AGE 500 words
6. CHAPTER III--THE AGE OF HEROES AND GODS 600 words
7. CHAPTER IV--THE DEVELOPMENT TO HUMANITY 200 words
8. INTRODUCTION 3,400 words
9. 1. THE DISCOVERY OF PRIMITIVE MAN. 8,300 words
10. 3. THE ORIGIN OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY. 5,400 words
11. 4. PRIMITIVE SOCIETY. 900 words
12. 5. THE BEGINNINGS OF LANGUAGE. 5,100 words
13. 6. THE THINKING OF PRIMITIVE MAN. 2,400 words
14. 7. EARLIEST BELIEFS IN MAGIC AND DEMONS. 6,900 words
15. 8. THE BEGINNINGS OF ART. 7,400 words
16. 1. THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF TOTEMISM. 2,300 words
17. 2. THE STAGES OF TOTEMIC CULTURE. 6,000 words
18. 3. TOTEMIC TRIBAL ORGANIZATION.[1] 1,200 words
19. 4. THE ORIGIN OF EXOGAMY. 3,700 words
20. 5. MODES OF CONTRACTING MARRIAGE. 1,500 words
21. 6. THE CAUSES OF TOTEMIC EXOGAMY. 2,200 words
22. 7. THE FORMS OF POLYGAMY. 2,800 words
23. 8. THE DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS OF TOTEMISM. 4,000 words
24. 9. THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMIC IDEAS. 2,300 words
25. 10. THE LAWS OF TABOO. 4,100 words
26. 11. SOUL BELIEFS OF THE TOTEMIC AGE. 5,900 words
27. 12. THE ORIGIN OF THE FETISH. 3,400 words
28. 13. THE ANIMAL ANCESTOR AND THE HUMAN ANCESTOR. 2,300 words
29. 14. THE TOTEMIC CULTS. 7,300 words
30. 15. THE ART OF THE TOTEMIC AGE. 8,000 words
31. 1. GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE HEROIC AGE 1,800 words
32. 2. THE EXTERNAL CULTURE OF THE HEROIC AGE. 5,700 words
33. 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. 3,400 words
34. 4. FAMILY ORGANIZATION WITHIN POLITICAL SOCIETY. 1,700 words
35. 5. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF CLASSES. 1,500 words
36. 6. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF VOCATIONS. 800 words
37. 7. THE ORIGIN OF CITIES. 1,400 words
38. 8. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM. 4,100 words
39. 9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF PENAL LAW. 3,300 words
40. 10. THE DIFFERENTIATION OF LEGAL FUNCTIONS. 1,300 words
41. 11. THE ORIGIN OF GODS. 8,300 words
42. 12. THE HERO SAGA. 3,500 words
43. 13. COSMOGONIC AND THEOGONIC MYTHS. 10,900 words
44. 15. THE ORIGIN OF DEITY CULTS. 4,600 words
45. 16. THE FORMS OF CULT PRACTICES. 7,900 words
46. 17. THE ART OF THE HEROIC AGE. 7,500 words
47. 1. THE CONCEPT 'HUMANITY.' 2,900 words
48. 2. WORLD EMPIRES. 2,200 words
49. 3. WORLD CULTURE. 3,300 words
50. 4. WORLD RELIGIONS. 5,500 words
51. 5. WORLD HISTORY. 4,900 words
52. INDEX 1,800 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Ancestor worship
• Animal
• Animism
• Avatar
• Chaos (cosmogony)
• Confucianism
• Constitution
• Cremation
• Cult
• Culture
• Dance
• Deity
• Fire
• Folk psychology
• God
• Goddess
• Hero
• History
• Indra
• Jacob
• Kapila
• Language
• Legal system
• Legend
• Magic (supernatural)
• Personal god
• Religion
• Ritual
• Root (linguistics)
• Sacrifice

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