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Übereinstimmend mit diesem Text lautet das Fazit des Totemismus, welches Frazer in seiner zweiten Arbeit über den Gegenstand (The origin of Totemism, Fortnightly Review 1899) zieht: »Thus Totemism has commonly been treated as a primitive system both of religion and of society. As a system of religion it embraces the mystic union of the savage with his totem; as a system of society it comprises the relations in which men and women of the same totem stand to each other and to the members of other totemic groups. And corresponding to these two sides of the system are two rough-and-ready tests or canons of Totemism: first, the rule that a man may not kill or eat his totem animal or plant, and second, the rule that he may not marry or cohabit with a woman of the same totem.« (p.
Übereinstimmend mit diesem Text lautet das Fazit des Totemismus, welches Frazer in seiner zweiten Arbeit über den Gegenstand (The origin of Totemism, Fortnightly Review 1899) zieht: »Thus, Totemism has commonly been treated as a primitive system both of religion and of society. As a system of religion it embraces the mystic union of the savage with his totem; as a system of society it comprises the relations in which men and women of the same totem stand to each other and to the members of other totemic groups. And corresponding to these two sides of the system are two rough-and-ready tests or canons of Totemism: first, the rule that a man may not kill or eat his totem animal or plant, and second, the rule that he may not marry or cohabit with a woman of the same totem.« (p.