Lexicographical Neighbors of Totemites
Literary usage of Totemites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early Civilization: An Introduction to Anthropology by Alexander Goldenweiser (1922)
"... ceremonies are performed by the totemites to multiply the supply of the totem
animal—these are only some of the positive and negative rules observed by ..."
2. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"The Buin totemites hold their animals, one for each sib, sacred to the point of
avenging an injury inflicted on them by other sibs and have no rites for the ..."
3. Primitive Society by Robert Harry Lowie (1920)
"The Buin totemites hold their animals, one for each sib, sacred to the point of
avenging an injury inflicted on them by other sibs and have no rites for the ..."
4. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"... possessed qualifications for the position, some younger man would be chosen
in preference to him. When the Headman of a totem died, all the totemites ..."
5. The Native Tribes of South-east Australia by Alfred William Howitt (1904)
"In such a case, if he were a man of consequence, or if the affair caused much
feeling among the people, all the totemites of each of the men assembled under ..."
6. An Introduction to the Study of Social Evolution: The Prehistoric Period by Francis Stuart Chapin (1913)
"Here a number of spirit individuals came into being who became transformed into
men and women,—the first totemites. In the Aranda alcheringa there were no ..."
7. Psychology and Folk-lore by Robert Ranulph Marett (1920)
"On the contrary, this hypothesis, which assumed that animal sacrifice in general
had developed out of a totemic sacrament, whereby the totemites were ..."
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