Question

What is animism and totemism

Answer 1

Answer:

Totemism and animism are religious forms common to smaller societies. A totem is any species of plants or animals thought to possess supernatural powers. ... Animism is the belief that spirits, apparitions, angels, or demons inhabit the earth.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The utility of the terms animism and totemism is questionable, and various anthropological observers have commented upon their problematical status and that of related terms such as ‘ancestor worship’ and ‘shamanism’. Their linkage with early evolutionary approaches to religion is undeniable. E. B. Tylor (1929) and Emile Durkheim (1915), respectively, proposed that animism and totemism were the primal forms of religion. Their thinking reflected the obsessive search for origins and the impact of evolutionary theory that was current in scholarship at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This article focuses on the utilization and applicability of animism and totemism within archaeological contexts.

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