Hypertext Webster Gateway: "totemism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Totemism \To"tem*ism\, n.
1. The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a
tribe by the totem.
2. Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real
or imaginary object; nature worship. --Tylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
totemism
n : belief in the kinship of a group of people with a common
totem
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