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totemism


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Totemism  \To"tem*ism\,  n. 
  1.  The  system  of  distinguishing  families,  clans,  etc.,  in  a 
  tribe  by  the  totem. 
 
  2.  Superstitious  regard  for  a  totem;  the  worship  of  any  real 
  or  imaginary  object;  nature  worship.  --Tylor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  totemism 
  n  :  belief  in  the  kinship  of  a  group  of  people  with  a  common 
  totem 




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