[602] Social Origins, London, 1903, especially ch. viii, entitled The Origin of Totem Names and Beliefs, and The Secret of the Totem, London, 1905.
[603] In his Social Origins especially, Lang attempts to reconstitute by means of conjecture the form which these primitive groups should have; but it seems superfluous to reproduce these hypotheses, which do not affect his theory of totemism.
[604] On this point, Lang approaches the theory of Julius Pickler (see Pickler and Szomolo, Der Ursprung des Totemismus. Ein Beitrag zur materialistirchen Geschichtstheorie, Berlin, 36 pp. in 8vo). The difference between the two hypotheses is that Pickler attributes a higher importance to the pictorial representation of the name than to the name itself.
[605] Social Origins, p. 166.
[606] The Secret of the Totem, p. 121; cf. pp. 116, 117.
[607] The Secret of the Totem, p. 136.
[608] J.A.I., Aug., 1888, pp. 53-54; cf. Nat. Tr., pp. 89, 488, 498.
[609] "With reverence," as Lang says (The Secret of the Totem, p. 111).
[610] Lang adds that these taboos are the basis of exogamic practices.
[611] Ibid., p. 125.