A Companion to Psychological Anthropology

The relationship between anthropology and psychology has a long and sometimes rather murky history, starting really with W.H.R. Rivers’ contribution to the 1898 Torres Straits expedition. Freud's Totem and Taboo had an enormous impact on both disciplines, although Freud himself had not spent the appropriate period of years lurking behind a palm tree on some remote atoll making copious notes before writing it. (In fact there is no evidence to suggest that Freud had contact with anyone outside his middle‐class Viennese and Parisian circles at the time of writing, or would have known what to do with a tribe of...