Such mixtures have historically made the understanding of particular totemistic forms difficult.

Further, the totemistic taboo occurs because the totem is a relative.

At first, he shared with Malinowski the opinion that an animal becomes totemistic when it is "good to eat."

She was clearly disturbed by the totemistic arrangements of two piles of huge rocks.

Had her mother harboured some primitive superstition about the totemistic quality of one's possessions?

The Koshta are divided into totemistic clans known as killis.

As a rule, such descendants do not expect special help from the protector spirit, but they observe the totemistic regulations anyway.

The tribe may have been named after the deer because it had a totemistic significance in Germanic symbolism.

They are divided into many totemistic clans.

This is the most totemistic of the new works, the most architectural and in one sense the most metaphorical.

The totemistic principle was then the clan itself, and it was permeated with sanctity.

Christianity, Islam and Traditional or Totemistic worship forming the basis of faith for most residents.

According to Ezekiel, as long as totemistic forces have walked the earth, there have also been those who have fed on them.

Some of them claim Brahminical Gotras yet some seem to be totemistic in origin.

The Patari are further divided into four sub-divisions, each of which have separate totemistic septs called kuris.

In opposition to Ankermann, Schmidt regarded a more recent, or "higher," form of hunting as the economic basis for the totemistic "culture circle."

"It should be noted that this small urban band's totemistic innovation achieved its desired effect . . . which was?

He was barefoot, but he was wearing rough cloth, and a metallic belt with clear shadowings of totemistic designs worked into it.

"The lion's head of Sakhmet is undoubtedly totemistic, Sergeant," explained Vance, good-naturedly.

A Russian American ethnologist, Alexander Goldenweiser, subjected totemistic phenomena to sharp criticism.

Totemistic taboo is also a possible reason for refusal to eat horse meat as an everyday food, but did not necessarily preclude ritual slaughter and consumption.

Rock paintings - apparently related to shamanistic and totemistic belief systems - have been found, especially in Eastern Finland, e.g. Astuvansalmi.

He felt that thoughts by the tribes on these matters led eventually to taboos, and that group exogamy first originated in the formation of totemistic associations.

In the Himalayan region as well as on the whole Tibetan plateau area and adjacent areas, certain beaded jewelry is believed to have totemistic capabilities.

Although the term is of Ojibwa origin, totemistic beliefs are not limited to Indigenous peoples of the Americas Indians.