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Highlight the differences and similarities between totemism and animism.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Religion and Society

Animism, in Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture (1871), is the belief in spiritual beings. Totemism is a ritual and social bond between a kin group and a natural species or object, which Émile Durkheim (The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, 1912) made the elementary form of religion. Both were candidates for religion's earliest form, but…

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