Historical dictionary of shamanism

TOTEMISM

Totemism: translation

Often confused with the exceptionally close or “spiritual” relationship of a shaman with a particularanimalor plant,totemderives from an Algonquian term for “clan.” Many indigenous cultures understand that clans are not merely kinship groups larger than families, but groups of persons related across species boundaries. That is, a clan includes both human andother-than-humanpersonsand may be known by the priority it gives to a particular type of such person, for example, the “bear clan.” Totemism expresses the understanding that all beings share responsibility for the well-being of every person who lives in an area. It is a particular form of sociality emerging from a broaderanimism. This provides the larger context in which shamans form intimate relationships with other-thanhumans within and beyond their clans; those relationships are better indicated by terms likepower animalorhelperplant. The use of totems amongneo-shamansin this moreindividualizedsense derives from anthropological debates that found the notion of interspecies clans difficult and conceived of totemism as a peculiar way ofthinkingabout animals, humans, and thecosmos. Both forms of totemism indicate something about the “true self” of the individual as construed by animist and modernist cultures.

  1. totemism—Totemism translation Totemism Constitutes the group of superstitions and customs of which the totem is the center dd Catholic Encyclopedia.Kevin Knight Totemism Totemis...Catholic encyclopedia
  2. totemism—n тотемизм...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
  3. totemism—n .strong тотемизм вера в сверхъестественное родство между группой людей и определенными тотемами .strong мистическое отношение к тотемам. strong тотемизм вера в сверхъ...Англо-русский словарь по социологии
  4. totemism—сущ.emstrong тотемизм вера в сверхъестественное родство между группой людей и определенными тотемами мистическое отношение к тотемам....Англо-русский социологический словарь
  5. totemism—сущ. соц. тотемизм комплекс верований мифов обрядов и обычаев родоплеменного общества связанных с представлением о сверхъестественном родстве между определенными группами...Англо-русский экономический словарь
  6. totemism—тотемзм...Англо-український словник
  7. totemism—n тотемзм....Англо-український словник Балла М.І.
  8. totemism—[ttmzm] n...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
  9. totemism—totemism [ttmzm] ni тотемизм...Новый большой англо-русский словарь II
  10. totemism—ttmzm n тотемизм...Новый большой англо-русский словарь под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна
  11. totemism—s.n. тотемизм m....Румынско-русский словарь
  12. totemism—Тотемизм...Эстонско-русский словарь