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noun

Totemism n.

The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship.

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Etymology of 'Totemism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Totemism" Quotes from Famous Books

... amongst Negritos such as the Andamanese or Bushmen, of peoples of the rudest culture, and living in very small communities, who apparently know neither exogamy nor what so often accompanies it, namely, totemism, we can never be certain whether we are dealing in such a case with the genuinely primitive, or merely with the degenerate. For instance, the chapter on the forms of social organization in Professor Hobhouse's Morals ...

— Anthropology • Robert Marett

... critics talked about, then, should the Christian religion ever become obsolete and half-forgotten, Mr. Epstein's figure will become quite insignificant. Most of us know next to nothing about Buddhism and Totemism, and only a little about Greek myths and Byzantine theology, yet works of art historically associated with these remain, by reason of their permanent and universal, that is to say their purely aesthetic, ...

— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell

Words linked to "Totemism" : belief