Totemism freud

Though the religious backgrounds and convictions of researchers influenced how the Intichiuma ceremonies were interpreted and how notions of the Eucharist were employed or implicated, I argue that the ethnographic material on the Intichiuma ceremonies also reshaped the ways in which early anthropologists of religion defined concepts of sacrifice and ritual, and demarcated the study of magic and religion. This article explores the theoretical frameworks that anthropologists, scholars of religion, and missionaries used to interpret the material that was collected in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among the Western Aranda people of the Ntaria/Hermannsburg area of the Upper Finke River in Central Australia. Different theoretical frameworks have played a major role in interpretations of ethnographic material collected among the Aborigines of Central Australia.