Note 184 — Chapter IV · TOTEMISM AS AN ELEMENTARY RELIGION History of the Question.—Method of Treating it
Joseph Ward Swain translation
In his Primitive Culture, Tylor had already attempted an explanation of totemism, to which we shall return presently, but which we shall not give here; for by making totemism only a particular case of the ancestor-cult, he completely misunderstood its importance. In this chapter we mention only those theories which have contributed to the progress of the study of totemism.