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pre-ˈanimism [pre- B. 1] Primitive belief that certain powers exist in material objects. Cf. next.
1918A. A. Brill tr. Freud's Totem & Taboo (1919) iii. 152 We have practically no further knowledge of preanimism, as no race has yet been found without conceptions of spirits. 1937Nature 27 Nov. 923/1 Dr. Robert Ranulph Marett..is best known as an anthropologist, the formulator of the theory of preanimism in the study of primitive religion. 1956E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer Relig. xiii. 311 Many such origins have been propounded: magic, fetishism, manism, animism, pre-animism. 1963S. Fuchs Origin of Man & his Culture xviii. 232 Andrew Lang maintained that pre-animism took two forms, that of magic and that of primitive monotheism. |