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Totemism

Scope note

Complex of religious and social beliefs and practices whereby individuals or groups of people identify with or consider themselves to be in close kinship or spiritual affinity with a specific natural object or plant or animal species.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300056002

Broader Terms used

<religious ideologies>

Equivalent Terms used

totemic

Created

13yrs ago

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