| In modern anthropology, fetishism, like animism and totemism, tends to be disfavoured as a universalistic principle. |
| This would also be the case had Arunta totemism always been conceptional and fortuitous. |
| Thus totemism and the clan mutually imply each other, in so far, at least, as the latter is not confounded with the Local Group. |
| Moreover, though he did not designate totemism as a religion, he saw that it did have some sort of religious meaning. |
| In this view, totemism speaks in its own way of interrelationships and antitheses, ideas that are also found in moieties. |
| I can begin to engage with this metaphysics most efficiently through a consideration of Australian Aboriginal totemism. |
