Man, God, and magic / Ivar Lissner ; translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn.

Author
Lissner, Ivar, 1909-1967 [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Putnam, [1961]
Description
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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      Summary note
      Scholarly study of the prevalence of monotheism among primitive peoples, ancient and modern, presented by a German anthropologist.
      Notes
      Translation of Aber Gott war da.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332).
      Contents
      • Spirituality is life
      • The problem of our time
      • Man 600,000 years ago
      • No more primitive than ourselves
      • Early man in America
      • Never a time without history
      • The origin of American Indians
      • American Indians and the supreme being
      • The death of the Yaghan
      • The Alacaluf: earliest of all Americans
      • The Selknam and their god Temaukl
      • Paleo-Asiatics and Tungus
      • The Taiga
      • The wolf has an "evil heart"
      • The Tungus: a dying race
      • The Tungus' original home
      • The bear knows all
      • An offering of bears' skulls
      • God and worship seventy thousand years ago
      • Cro-Magnon man
      • Handprints, statuettes, wands and religious art
      • The Gilyaks
      • The bear festival
      • Sorcery, magic and religious cults
      • Animism
      • The shaman's secret
      • Shamanism twenty thousand years ago
      • Alfred Rust's great discovery
      • Reindeer sacrifice in 16,000 B.C.
      • Man: the unsolved mystery
      • The second beam of the cross.
      LCCN
      61005698
      OCLC
      387887
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