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n. A belief in totems or in kinship through common affiliation to a totem.

n. The practice of establishing affiliation through totems.

n. The belief that a person or group has a special mystical relationship to a totem

n. The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

n. Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship.

n. The system of tribal subdivision denoted by totems; the use of totems, with all the social and religious observances connected with them; the constitution of society as marked by these observances.

n. belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common totem

"I apply the word totemism to the widely diffused savage institution which I have defined."

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