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Frazer, J. G. Totemism and Exogamy: A Treatise on Certain Early Forms of Superstition and Society. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1910.

Freud, Sigmund. Totem and Taboo: Resemblances between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics. Translated by A. A. Brill. New York: Vintage, 1946. Originally published in 1913.

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Leach, Edmund R. "Anthropological Aspects of Language: Animal Categories and Verbal Abuse." In his New Directions in the Study of Language, edited by Eric H. Lenneberg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1964.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Savage Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1966.

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Lowie, Robert. Primitive Society. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1948.

McLennan, John. "The Worship of Animals and Plants." Reprinted in his Studies in Ancient History. The Second Series: Comprising an Inquiry into the Origin of Exogamy. London and New York: Macmillan, 1896. Originally published in 1869–1870.

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