CHAPTER II TOTEMIC BELIEFS—continued The Totemic Animal and Man
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Durkheim, Émile and Swain, Joseph Ward
But totemic images are not the only sacred things. There are real things which are also the object of rites, because of the relations which they have with the totem: before all others, are the beings of the totemic species and the members of the clan.