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Race, Ethnicity, Species, Breed: Totemism and Horse-Breed Classification in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

John Borneman
John Borneman
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Harvard University
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Totem: the iconic representation of a specific ordering of plant and animal species. Clan: the representation of a group identity. Totemism: the relationship between totem and clan. From Emile Durkheim and his nineteenthcentury antecedents to Claude Lévi-Strauss, the discussion of totemism has addressed the way in which people classify themselves with reference to the animal and plant world. This discussion began with the observation among different exotic peoples of the widespread practice of arranging certain animal and plant species into a pattern that, while differing from culture to culture in content, seemed to indicate a consistent formal relationship between totem and clan. The iconic representation of so-called nature—the totem—seemed invariably the model for the representation of intra- or intergroup identity—for the clan.

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Symbols of National Consciousness
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 1988 , pp. 25 - 51
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988

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