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ˈtotemist
[f. totem + -ist.]
1. One who belongs to a totem clan, or has a totem.
1881Cornh. Mag. Sept. 332 Our Aryan ancestor in person was a most undoubted totemist. 1883F. Seebohm Eng. Vill. Community 362 The hasty conclusion that the Saxons were ‘totemists’. 1887A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. I. 73 Totemists..spare the beasts that are their own..kin. 1905Athenæum 21 Jan. 87/1 If the people were once true totemists, the traces thereof are indistinct.
2. One who is versed in the history of totemism.
1897Edin. Rev. July 239 Some of the highest authorities on the myths and customs of savage races are by no means on the side of the thoroughgoing totemist. 1902Folk-Lore Dec. 361, I am not aware that any totemists do make this assertion.
So toteˈmistic a., of, pertaining to, or characterized by totemism.
1873Fortn. Rev. May 631 They have lost whatever meaning their totemistic forefathers may have had. 1881Sat. Rev. 12 Feb. 216/2 Why were the ‘primary divisions’, as Mr. Fison says they were, totemistic? 1882Athenæum 22 Apr. 502/1 While Huitzilopochtli had many features of the magician, he had also elemental and totemistic sides to his complex nature. 1884Pall Mall G. 18 Oct. 5/1 Their society is Totemistic; that is to say, they are divided into stocks of kin (real or assumed), each designated by the name of its Totem plant, animal, or what not. 1905C. Squire Mythol. Brit. Isl. 20 An agricultural..people, still in the Stone Age, dwelling in totemistic tribes on hills. |