The rubbish in the manners, customs, beliefs and customary law of the peoples
Der Unrat or with the full German title Der Unrat in Customs, Customs, Beliefs and Customs Law of the Nations is an overview of the ethnological use of feces and various other body fluids published in Washington DC in 1891 . It is the first and to date the most extensive account of scatological customs.
It was written by the American officer and "leisure anthropologist " John Gregory Bourke as Scatalogic Rites of all Nations. A Dissertation upon the Employment of Excrementitious Remidial Agents in Religion, Therapeuthics, Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Philters, etc., in all Parts of the Globe. in an edition that was only intended for selected readers.
The German translation was published by Ethnologische Verlag in Leipzig in 1913 . Translators were Friedrich Salomo Krauss and Hermann Ihm . Sigmund Freud wrote the foreword.
expenditure
- John Gregory Bourke: Scatalogic rites of all nations . A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. WH Lowdermil & Co., Washington, DC 1891 ( archive.org ).
- John Gregory Bourke: The rubbish in manners, customs, beliefs and customary law of the peoples. Ethnographischer Verlag, Leipzig 1913 ( archive.org ) (Reprinted by Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-8218-0503-X ).
literature
- Edwin Van Valkenburg Sutherland: The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: their Anthropological and Folklore Content: a Dissertation in Folklore , [Philadelphia] 1964, OCLC 21010756 (Philosophical Dissertation University of Philadelphia (Penn) , Philadelphia 1964, 6 volumes, 1XVII, 1426, 1XXVIII Pages, illustrated, 28 cm).
Individual evidence
- ↑ the copy at Arizona State University West is one formerly in the possession of the United States Military Academy, and is one of two which contain all of the illustrations