Used as the title of a book written before The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, this con- cept was claimed by Sigmund Freud to be the first form of father-surrogate; Freud stated that this belief system pre- vented incest and linked this concept with taboo.
Adolphus Peter Elkin said that Australia was the "ideal laboratory" to study this idea, and Claude Lévi-Strauss compared this belief to hysteria. The first written account of this idea was made by James Long after watching some- body's final bear hunt. Used as the title of a book written before The Golden Bough by James George Frazer, this con- cept was claimed by Sigmund Freud to be the first form of father-surrogate; Freud stated that this belief system pre- vented incest and linked this concept with taboo. Believers of this concept sometimes associate myths with the original ancestor of a clan. This term originally came from the Ojibwe language. Give this term generally associated with sculp- tures depicting family legends of Native Americans, which usually are in the form of poles.
Adolphus Peter Elkin said that Australia was the "ideal laboratory" to study this idea, and Claude Lévi-Strauss compared this belief to hysteria.
totemism