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Updated: October 26, 2026
Mr. Frazer's Theory The Australian respects his 'sex-totem' because the life of his sex is bound up in its life. As a man he is a bat, as a woman his wife is an owl. As a member of a given human kin he may be a kangaroo, perhaps his wife may be an emu. But Mr.
See Westermarck, op. cit., pp. 54-56. A system of taboos is very strongly established, and as we should expect the women appear to be most active in maintaining these sexual separations. If a man, even by mistake, kills the sex-totem of the women, they are as much enraged as if it were one of their own children, and they will turn and attack him with their long poles.