totemism

Freud (2004: 3) defines taboo in the context of ancient Aboriginal Australian, and explains that Aboriginal Australians profess totemism as their system of tribal life.

Tengrism is a Central Asian religion characterized by shamanism, animism, totemism, poly and monotheism and ancestor worship.

Since time immemorial, the Shona believed in totemism, a practice whereby particular groups of people were identified with particular wild animals.

For example, totemism was one of the observed taboos where one was not allowed to eat their totem animal [25].

This phenomenon, called "totemism", is observed in many tribes of central and south India including the Todas of Nilgiris, and the Ho and Mundas of central India (Frazer 2009).

Further, Descola's model (2006), which posits four ontologies (animism, totemism, analogism, and naturalism), considers hierarchic ontologies as being more constitutive of analogism (different interiorities, different physicalities) (p.

Totemism, as a first attempt of a religious science, focuses on the idea of the totem-animal, which is, at the same time, idealized and feared.

We can thus make the tacit link from the demonic to paganism, mysticism, totemism, and cannibalism: to everything beyond the pale of Christianity at its formation.

Totemism is a complex social phenomenon where individuals or groups form a mystical or emotional relationship with a venerated or sacred object, the totem, usually an animal.

Acknowledging that the murder motif lodges itself uncomfortably in Freud's attempt to explain the evolution of sexual prohibitions, and the power of totemism, Girard frees the concept of collective murder from the context Freud assigns it, positing it instead as a function of religion and a means of restoring social order.

The first modern men would bury their dead by promoting funeral rites that would use totemism, with carcasses or images of animals deposited in the tombs, characterizing the dead with peculiarities of the animal in question.