It is necessary to differentiate between group and individual totemism.

He thus viewed totemism as a relationship between one type of animal and a clan.

There are a number of theories or hypotheses concerning totemism.

Totem and Taboo does not just help our understanding of totemism.

He based his view on recent research regarding totemism among the Australian aboriginals.

Freud begins by explaining religion in a similar term to that of totemism.

This is considered as a kind of totemism.

Social or collective totemism is the most widely disseminated form of this belief system.

The traditional Samoyed religion was based on shamanism and totemism.

This view of totemism sees it as a practical strategy to preserve the natural resources available to various tribes.

Like Boas, he was skeptical that totemism could be described in any unified way.

According to Malinowski, totemism was not a cultural phenomenon, but rather the result of trying to satisfy basic human needs within the natural world.

He admits the reality of totemism, in which, within a larger group, smaller groups distinguish themselves through identification with a plant or animal.

Mo has totemism and the cult of reproductive organs.

In the spring of 1926 Tokarev presented a report on Australian totemism.

In a certain respect, the individual totems in this community seem to be the basis of group totemism.

There are attractions to some anthropologists in thinking in a completely different way from Freud about totemism.

Tylor claimed to find in totemism the tendency of the human spirit to classify the world and its things.

They are associated with the objects other than human that might be the remnants of some form of totemism as probably practised earlier.

Emile Durkheim argued in 1915 that totemism was a way of societies thinking and considering groups.

Although totems are often the focus of ritual behaviour, it is generally agreed that totemism is not a religion.

Boas was against systematizing and thought it senseless to ask questions about the origins of totemism.

For Elkin, there is no longer "one" totemism but many totemisms, each in itself a single irreducible whole.

The second stage of totemism is noted by a simultaneous double existence of identical identities.

He proposes that totemism is a manifestation of humans universal tendency to classify things into similar groups.