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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 256 — Chapter I · TOTEMIC BELIEFS The Totem as Name and as Emblem

Joseph Ward Swain translation

On the question of Australian matrimonial classes in general, see our memoir on La Prohibition de l'inceste, in the Année Soc., I, pp. 9 ff., and especially for the tribes with eight classes, L'Organisation matrimoniale des societés Australiennes, in Année Soc., VIII, pp. 118-147.

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