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The 18 pages that link to Totemism, each with the reason it gives.

• Émile DurkheimRelated: Durkheim analyzed totemism as a setting where society represents and worships itself.

• Structural anthropologyRelated: Lévi-Strauss examined how such associations classify relations among human groups.

• Claude Lévi-StraussRelated: He treated totemic classifications as ways societies organize relations and differences.

• TabooRelated: Totemic systems can impose prohibitions on killing, eating, or otherwise treating a group’s emblem.

• Marcel MaussRelated: Mauss and Durkheim treated totemic religion as evidence that social groups shape sacred classifications.

• ClanRelated: Some clans use a shared totem to express group identity and ancestral connections.

• Sacred grovesRelated: Some communities connect forest species and places to clan identity.

• Food tabooRelated: Relations with a totemic species can include rules against eating it.

• Human–animal bondCompared with: It concerns collective identity and symbolism rather than necessarily personal attachment.

• Animal symbolismRelated: Totemic relationships make animal identity a source of group belonging and sacred connection.

• Paleolithic religionCompared with: Animal images have prompted totemic interpretations, though images alone cannot establish such social relationships.

• The Sacred and the ProfaneRelated: Durkheim used totemic symbols to show how a group makes its own collective life sacred.

• W. H. R. RiversRelated: Rivers documented totemic beliefs and affiliations during his Melanesian fieldwork.

• A. P. ElkinRelated: Elkin examined totemic systems as part of Aboriginal social organization and religion.

• Shigir IdolCompared with: The idol’s imagery has prompted symbolic interpretations, but evidence does not establish it as a totem.

• Francis James GillenRelated: Spencer and Gillen used this concept to interpret Arrernte kinship, ritual, and identity.

• Theories about religionBroader topic: Émile Durkheim treated totemic ritual as an early expression of society worshipping itself.

• TotemNarrower topic: Totems are the emblems through which some forms of totemism are expressed.