Sentences with word «totemism»

In totemism, a particular animal or (less often) some other natural phenomenon or artifact is given a special role as the ancestral being around which the social unit's life is structured.

Slavish adherence to «inflation - targeting» and other such totemism and pseudo-science will ruin us all...

This book examines the nature, structure, and anthroplogical function of the primitive systems of meaning, «power», and «magic» known collectively as «totemism.»

The analysis of modern civil religion gives evidence of one rather direct application of Durkheim's thesis — expecting in any society a reasonably close analogue to totemism.

Other geometric works focus on form and are inspired by modernism and totemism.