totemism

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• Theories that link totemism and hunting with sacrifice would seem to bear directly on the Ogbaseri story, but it also provides a metaphorical explanation for the way epidemics exceed socially acceptable limits by claiming too many human lives in one stroke.

  Academic text (2003)

• A thinking and strong-willed woman, Isis immediately had recourse to her knowledge of magical art—in this case, totemism.

  Academic text (1996)

• Why are archaic "visual perversions" such as fetishism, totemism, and idolatry alive and well in the modern, secular world?

  Academic text (1995)

• Racial totemism predicated on exoticism does not erode the subject-object relation.

  Academic text (1999)

• Kalland (1993) proposed "whale totemism" as an element motivating people to oppose whaling.

  Academic text (2000)

• Comaroff, John L. 1987. "Of totemism and ethnicity: consciousness, practice and the signs of inequality." Ethnos 52: 301-323.

  Academic text (2005)

• We focused on the effects of the following four elements: (a) the mass media, (b) animal rights, (c) whale anthropomorphism in place of whale totemism, and (d) ethnocentrism of the anti-whaling stance in place of cultural imperialism.

  Academic text (2000)

• Recent studies (Kalland 1993, 1998) have further proposed that the opposition to whaling is influenced by whale totemism (whales occupying a unique symbolic place in the animal kingdom) and by world opinion.

  Academic text (2000)

• The reconstruction of shamanism as an isolate appears as an anthropological illusion... historically comparable to totemism, the reality of which lies as much in anthropological conceptualizing as in ethnographic reality.

  Academic text (1996)

• In many Indigenous cultures, totemism reflects their connection to specific animals that symbolize their identity.

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