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<P align="justify">Totemism: a concept in primitive societies according to which social groups such as extended families or clans (groups of persons related by patrilineal, or more rarely matrilineal, descent) have a close relationship with particular animals or less commonly a plants from which they are descended. The usual explanation for this is that the progenitor of a patrilineal family or clan was the animal (or plant) in question. The marital systems of totemic societies are often exogamic, i.e. marriages are only permitted between members of different totemic communities. The killing and eating of the totem animal is taboo except for ritualistic purposes ({{Artikkelilinkki|10133|Rite}}). According to many evolutionist theories of religion ({{Artikkelilinkki|1712|Evolutionism}}), totemism represents one of the earliest stages in the development of religion.</P>
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