The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

CHAPTER IV

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TOTEMIC BELIEFS--(_end_)

_The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem_

I.--Individual totem as a forename; its sacred character-- Individual totem as personal emblem--Bonds between the man and his individual totem--Relations with the collective totem 157

II.--The totems of sexual groups--Resemblances and differences with the collective and individual totems--Their tribal nature 165