| 单词 | totem stage |
| 释义 | > as lemmastotem stage C1. General attributive, as totem animal, totem clan, totem stage, etc. ΚΠ 1869 J. F. M'Lennan in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 408 Men in, what we may call, the Totem stage of development. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture II. xv. 213 Some accounts describing the totem-animal as being actually regarded as the sacred object. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire v. 241 The needs and aspirations..of the developed polytheist [would not be satisfied] by totem-worship. 1888 J. G. Frazer in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 468/1 The Bechuanas in South Africa..have a well-developed totem system. 1907 C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West ix. 177 The family or kin totem-figures which are customarily carved on the beams or painted on the sides of their houses. 1937 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 60 413 It is thus clear that the gi is nothing other than the totem-ancestor. 2007 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 37 60 Dêh-Yān, the eponymous heroine.., is the strongest unmarried girl of her totem clan. < as lemmas |
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