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Definition of Totemist
1. Noun. A person who belongs to a clan or tribe having a totem.
Definition of Totemist
1. n. One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem.
Definition of Totemist
1. Noun. One belonging to a clan or tribe having a totem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Totemist
1. a specialist in totemism [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totemist
Literary usage of Totemist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"... while Ceremonies of a totemist character seemed to be justifiably regarded as
survivals of the distinctive ceremonies of the Matriarchal Marriage. ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"... and the idea of connection involving the duties of the totemist to his totem,
and of the totem to the totemist ? No " DISEASE OF LANGUAGE. ..."
3. Social Origins by Andrew Lang, James Jasper Atkinson (1903)
"... duties of the totemist to his totem, and of the totem to the totemist ?
NO ' DISEASE OF LANGUAGE ' The names, I repeat, requiring and receiving mythical ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1919)
"The totemist considers the animal his superior: civilized man thinks of it as
vastly his inferior. Primitive man must distinguish between the animal and ..."
5. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"I suggest, therefore, that though I, being a totemist, am theoretically at liberty
to kill my father's totem-animal, or my wife's, still, as a matter of ..."
6. Essays and Studies Presented to William Ridgeway ... on His Sixtieth by Edmund Crosby Quiggin (1914)
"... but the student of the psychology of religion will correlate the consciousness
of the totemist with that of his more advanced a peculiar tonsure to copy ..."