totemism
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الطوتمية · the totem · الطوتم · al-ṭūtamīyah · Totem · Totemism · al-Ṭawtamīyah · the doctrine of totemism · the totemism of the Arabs · القول بالطوتمية
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The doctrine that a tribe takes an animal, plant or other sensible being as its father, holds it sacred, names itself after it, and orders its marriage and descent accordingly.
and that the genealogies of the Arabs are one and all falsehoods, since the names of the tribes are not the names of men who lived, as they allege, but most of them resemble what is called a totem (Totem) among the savage nations — I mean an animal to which they trace their descent out of their ignorance of the order of nature, so that from their tracing of themselves to it there issue usages and …
A refutation of those who assert mother-right and totemism among the Arabs of the Jāhilīyah
٭ The origin of this doctrine ٭ The doctrine of totemism, regarded as an ordering of society, is recent.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Concept of kinship originating in marks placed by savages on their bodies.
Totemism (or the origin of the conception of kinship in the mark placed by savages on their bodies), the slaughter of female children, woman-stealing, polyandry (or a plurality of recognised husbands), and the well-known Levirate, play a great part in the system of Mr.