| 词汇 | totem |
| 词源 | totem. A totem is an object toward which individuals or groups have a special mystical relationship. Often these people observe totemic taboos, such as the Buffalo people of Ruanda, who will not eat buffalo meat, explaining that they are descend- ed from the animal for whom they are named. The word totem, appropriately, comes from the Algonquian Indian ototema, meaning “his relations.” |
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