Rodney Needham

summed up in 1978 by a leading expert in the anthropology of religion, Rodney Needham, as 'someone who causes harm to others by mystical means'. In stating

一些神话研究者，人类学家和历史学家如米尔恰·伊利亚德、克勞德·李維-史陀、馬歇爾·薩林斯、罗德尼·尼达姆（Rodney Needham）、让-皮埃尔·韦尔南和乔治·杜比将这一假设置于印欧研究领域之外。 另一方面，艾伦得出结论认为，三重分类可能是一种人造理论，一种选择效应，而不是社会本身所使用的组织原则。

Elementary Structures of Kinship, ed. *Rodney Needham, trans. J. H. Bell, J. R. von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham, 1969) 《种族与历史》 Race et histoire (1952,

in Primitive Society, 1952 (Lévi-Strauss C., Le Totémisme aujourd'hui(1958); english trans. as Totemism, by Rodney Needham. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963

supranote261, at 89-91; Rodney Needham, Remarkson the Analysis of Kinship and Marriage,in Rethinking Kinship and Marriage 5-8 (RodneyNeedhamed.,1971). William