totemy

English

Noun

totemy (uncountable)

  1. The use of totems within a culture.
    • 1889, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, page 53:
      I cannot say whether these tales have been invented to fit the existing totems, or whether totemy and these fables have had a simultaneous growth.
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