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Totemism

One of the four modes of identification for humans in relation to the non-human, according to the theory proposed by Philippe Descola. This paradigm presupposes a material and mental continuity between humans and non-humans symbolised by an initial common physical identity. All the humans and non-humans who belong to the same totem, to the same primordial prototype, have the same identity.

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