Patrick Wolfe has discussed the work of Scottish ethnologist John Ferguson McLennan in his study The Worship of Animals and Plants ( 1869, 1870 ) regarding the role of legendary progenitors in Totemism, practiced by Native Americans.
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As a chief representative of modern structuralism, French ethnologist Claude L�vi-Strauss, and his, " Le Tot�misme aujourd'hui " ( " Totemism Today " [ 1958 ] ) are often cited in the field.
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Traditionally the Kondh religious beliefs were syncretic combining totemism, animism, Ancestor worship, shamanism and nature worship . The Kondhs gave highest importance to the Earth goddess, who is held to be the creator and sustainer of the world.
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Likewise a number of archeologists propose that Middle Paleolithic societies such as that of the Neanderthals may also have practiced the earliest form of totemism or animal worship in addition to their ( presumably religious ) burial of the dead.
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The founder of a French school of sociology, �mile Durkheim, examined totemism from a sociological and theological point of view, attempting to discover a pure religion in very ancient forms and claimed to see the origin of religion in totemism.
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The founder of a French school of sociology, �mile Durkheim, examined totemism from a sociological and theological point of view, attempting to discover a pure religion in very ancient forms and claimed to see the origin of religion in totemism.
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:Totemism, which has been rendered amply formal in'primitive language', could at the cost of a very simple transformation equally well be expressed in the language of the regime of castes which is quite the reverse of primitive.
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Another Scottish scholar, Andrew Lang, early in the 20th century advocated a nominalistic meaning for totemism, namely that local groups or clans, in selecting a totemistic name from the realm of nature, were reacting to a need to be differentiated.
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The Aboriginal people of Victoria had developed a varied and complex set of languages, tribal alliances and trading routes, beliefs and social customs that involved totemism, superstition, initiation and burial rites, and tribal moeties that regulated sexual relationships and marriage.
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British anthropologist Sir James George Frazer published " Totemism and Exogamy " in 1910, a four volume work based largely on his research among Indigenous peoples of Australia and Melanesia, along with a compilation of the work of other writers in the field.
