totemism

NOUN
  1. belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem
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How To Use totemism In A Sentence

  • The last word, proclaiming the totemism of things that are ‘good to eat,’ is uttered in a cadence of triumph.
  • I can begin to engage with this metaphysics most efficiently through a consideration of Australian Aboriginal totemism.
  • They were then driven to finding strange women, and this was the origin of the exogamy which is so closely bound up with totemism. Warranted Christian Belief
  • This destabilises the popular notion that the Aboriginal relation to place through totemism and myth is timeless, and it is probably the case that a historicised Aboriginality is harder to negotiate through the land claim process.
  • Thus it is difficult to prove that the heraldry is the origin of totemism, which is just as likely, or more likely, to have been the origin of savage heraldic crests and quarterings. Modern Mythology
  • His theory is that there are four ways in which various cultures portray reality in paintings, sculpture and other objects: animism, totemism, analogism and naturalism. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • The formulation of witch culture in Yi district, is based on the folk primitive faith of Yi, an organic whole of worshipping the ancestor, nature, totemism and efficacious things.
  • In 1888 he contributed articles on taboo and totemism to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which laid the foundation for his work on primitive religion.
  • Totemism is a so-called on the clan with a variety of animals, plants, and some even among the non-biological relatives of supernatural concepts.
  • e.g. sawbill duck, and receives such additional strength that he soon escapes his pursuers (Frazer, "Totemism and Exogamy", III, p. 385). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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