Totem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...In most cases the totemic animal or plant is the object of taboo: it may be forbidden to kill or eat the sacred animal. The...Religious Life (1915, repr. 1965); S. Freud, Totem and Taboo (1918, repr. 1960); A. Goldenweiser, History, Psychology...