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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 216 — Chapter I · TOTEMIC BELIEFS The Totem as Name and as Emblem

Joseph Ward Swain translation

It may be said in a general way that the clan is a family group, where kinship results solely from a common name; it is in this sense that the gens is a clan. But the totemic clan is a particular sort of the class thus constituted.

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