totemistn.
/ˈtəʊtəmɪst/, U.S. /ˈtoʊdəməst/ 1. A person who has a totem or who belongs to a totem clan.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol > worshipped by specific people > American Indians > one who has
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] > small tribe or division of tribe > American Indian > member of
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1880 Aberdeen Jrnl. 13 Aug. 7/2 The people worshipped the host of heaven. But so do most Totemists.
1881 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 332 Our Aryan ancestor in person..was a most undoubted totemist.
1887 A. Lang Myth, Ritual & Relig. I. 73 Totemists..spare the beasts that are their own..kin.
1905 Athenæum 21 Jan. 87/1 If the people were once true totemists, the traces thereof are indistinct.
2008 Americas 65 22 Ramos rejected Nina Rodrigues' claim that all Africans transplanted to Brazil were totemists.
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the world > people > ethnicities > race > ethnoscience > [noun] > branches of > person
autochthonist1879
palaeoethnologist1882
totemist1897
raciologist1939
ethnomethodologist1967
1897 Edinb. Rev. July 239 Some of the highest authorities on the myths and customs of savage races are by no means on the side of the thoroughgoing totemist.
1902 Folk-Lore Dec. 361 I am not aware that any totemists do make this assertion.
1919 Amer. Anthropologist 21 344 Our totemists may be interested in the same author's, ‘A Note on Totemism Amongst the Asurs’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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