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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 266 — Chapter I · TOTEMIC BELIEFS The Totem as Name and as Emblem

Joseph Ward Swain translation

"The distinction between the two clans is absolute in every respect," says Swanton, p. 68; he gives the name clan to what we call phratries. The two phratries, he says elsewhere, are like two foreign nations in their relations to each other.

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