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Add. MS c/57/22
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Letter from A. van Gennep to J. G. Frazer
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- 27 July 1906 (Creation)
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Clamart - Thanks him for the articles in 'Fortnightly' ['The Beginnings of Religion and Totemism among the Australian Aborigines'], and accepts his totem theory; discusses the division of classes, and the prohibition of marriage between siblings and people of different generations, and primitive theories of conception; suggests articles on French Soudan as giving infomation on totemism in the region.
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A typescript copy of this letter is housed as Add.Ms.b.35/351.