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totemism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | belief |
| Derivation | totemic |
Examples of totemism
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Among the Iban of Sarawak, Malaysia, individual totemism has been the tradition.
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He thus viewed totemism as a relationship between one type of animal and a clan.
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Freud begins by explaining religion in a similar term to that of totemism.
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He based his view on recent research regarding totemism among the Australian aboriginals.
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It is necessary to differentiate between group and individual totemism.
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Social or collective totemism is the most widely disseminated form of this belief system.
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Durkheim saw totemism as the original and simplest form of religion.
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In general totemism recognizes the unity of society and nature.
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Among the Kpelle people of Liberia there is not only group totemism but also individual totemism.
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- Belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem
- (totemic) relating to totemism; "totemic object"
- A totem is any supposed entity that watches over or assists a group of people, such as a family, clan, or tribe.
- The belief that a person or group has a special mystical relationship to a totem
- The earliest form of religion, intended to forbid incestuous desires felt by family members toward one another. Freud regarded it as the basis of all other social obligations and norms.
- A religious belief of many preliterate societies where animals were seen as both gods and ancestors.
- (from Ojibwe odoodem): In its most specific sense, the term applies to the religious practices of the Native American Ojibiwa tribe, i.e., a religious belief in which a family or a clan would be watched over assisted by a totem-spirit. ...
- A system of belief in which members select some living, or rarely nonliving, object as their source of reverence and protection and is usually viewed as the ancestor from which all the members descended
- A religious conception that human individuals or groups have a symbolic or spiritual connection with particular natural species, objects, or phenomena.
