Conditions favorable and unfavorable
to totemistic organization, 522; economic, 523-528;
individualistic institutions (secret societies, guardian
spirits), 529-537; political, 538; religious, 539, 540; The
lines of progress to which totemism succumbs, 541.

THEORIES OF THE ORIGIN OF TOTEMISM, 542-559:

INDIVIDUALISTIC THEORIES. Confusion between names and
things, 544; Animal or plant held to be the incarnation of a
dead man, 545; Body of an animal as magical apparatus, 546;
Animals as places of deposit of souls, 547; An object that
influences a mother at conception, of which the child may
not eat, 548; Animals and plants as incarnations of the
souls of the dead, 549; Criticism, 550-552.

THEORIES BASED ON CLAN ACTION. A clan chooses an animal or
plant as friend, 553, 554; The totem a clan badge, 555-557;
Cooeperation of groups to supply particular foods, 558; The
totem a god incarnate in every member of a clan, 559;
Summing-up on origin of totemism, 560-562; Social function
of totemism, 563; Whether it produced the domestication of
animals and plants, 564-569; Its relation to religion,
570-580; The totem as helper, 570-575; Whether a totem is
ever worshiped, 576; or ever becomes a god, 577-580.

TABOO. Its relation to ethics, 581-584; It has to do with
dangerous objects and acts, 585, 586; Classes of taboo
things, 587: those connected with the conception of life
(parents and children), 588, 589; with death, 590, 591; with
women and the relation between the sexes, 592-594; with
great personages, 595-597; with industrial pursuits,
598-600; with other important social events (expulsion of
spirits, sacred seasons, war, etc.), 601-604; with the moon:
fear of celestial phenomena, 605; observation of lunations,
606; new moon and full moon, 607; Whether the Hebrew sabbath
was originally a full-moon day, 608, 609; The seven-day
week, 610; Prohibitions connected with lucky and unlucky
days, 611-613; Punishment of violation of taboo, 614, 615;
Removal of taboos, 616, 617; Taboo and magic, 618, 619;
Modification of taboo by civil law, 620; Despotism of taboo,
621; Duration of taboo periods, 622; Diffusion of taboo
customs, 623, 624; Traces in ancient civilized communities,
625; Indications of former general prevalence, 626, 627;
Causes of disappearance, 628, 629; Role of taboo in the
history of religion, 630-634.

CHAPTER VI. GODS