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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 520 — Chapter IV · TOTEMIC BELIEFS—end The Individual Totem and the Sexual Totem

Joseph Ward Swain translation

J. W. Powell, An American View of Totemism, in Man, 1902, No. 84; Tylor, ibid., No. 1; Andrew Lang has expressed analogous ideas in Social Origins, pp. 133-135. Also Frazer himself, turning from his former opinion, now thinks that until we are better acquainted with the relations existing between collective totems and "guardian spirits," it would be better to designate them by different names (Totemism and Exogamy, III, p. 456).

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