单词 | sex totem |
释义 | > as lemmassex totem sex totem n. Cultural Anthropology (among some southern and south-eastern Australian Aboriginal peoples) a totem specific to either men or women. ΚΠ 1887 J. G. Frazer Totemism 53 Men who do not object to other people killing their clan totem will fiercely defend their sex totem against any attempt of the opposite sex to injure it. 1927 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 May 328/2 One has only to think of the remarkable institution of the sex-totem in aboriginal Australia. 2018 Skin, Kin & Clan (e-book, accessed 18 May 2018) vi. 157 The widespread use (in south-eastern Australia) of the bat as a sex totem for men. < as lemmas |
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