The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

4 by Émile Durkheim, Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917, Swain, Joseph Ward, 1891-

Chapter 9: CHAPTER I

Chapter 9: CHAPTER I

TOTEMIC BELIEFS _The Totem as Name and as Emblem_ I.--Definition of the clan--The totem as name of the clan--Nature of the things which serve as totems--Ways in which the totem is acquired--The totems of phratries; of matrimonial classes 102 II.--The totem as emblem--Totemic designs engraved or carved upon objects; tatooings or designs upon the body 113 III.--Sacred character of the totemic emblem--The churinga--The nurtunja--The waninga--Conventional character of totemic emblems 119
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