QUOTES WITH «TOTEMIC»
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totemic.
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOTEMIC»
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totemic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
totemic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics
More generally, the totemic animal enables the detotalisationand retotalisationof
any complex entity, which is what happens when totemic thought alternates
between a conception of the animal as asignifier of the species (i.e. as asignifier
of ...
2
Collected Works of Edward Sapir
that Goldenweiser makes too much of this relative lack of totemic names in British
Columbia as a point of difference between [456] the two regions compared. The
essential fact is the existence of crests associated with definite social units ...
Edward Sapir, Regna Darnell, 1994
hero into an animal The totemic ancestors are identified as the ancestors of
various human and animal groups. One particular Aranda myth, of the bandicoot
totem/clan, deals with an ancestor named Karora from whose armpits issue forth
the ...
Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskiĭ, 1998
4
Pluralism and Identity: Studies in Ritual Behaviour
determined by patrilinear rules, whilst membership of the totemic group was
determined by Arunta ideas concerning conception. We may conceive of the
Arunta area as a large totemic map, every part of it belonging to a certain totem
and ...
Jan. G. Platvoet, Karel Van Der Toorn, 1995
5
An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology
Levi-Strauss termed such rules 'totemic operators' which function to maintain the
significance of the symbolic equations. It is the 'operators' which turn the cognitive
structures into structured interaction. Perhaps the most interesting chapter of ...
6
Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia
CHAPTER IV TOTEMIC SYSTEMS AND TOTEM GROUPS Division of northern
tribes into five groups so far as totemic matters are concerned. — Kakadu tribe. —
The Yalmuru and Iwaiyu. — Manner of acquiring totemic names. — Examples of
...
7
Principles of Visual Anthropology
This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed.
It might seem, at first sight, that what Durkheim calls the totemic cosmogony is a
true offspring of totemism. But when one considers that the cosmological
projection of social organization is a cultural feature of frequent occurrence, he
might at ...
9
Kamarathin: Kingdom of Tursh
Totemic Shamans, or more typically just Shamans, tend to be from more rustic
lands where people are still in touch with the natural world. Many come from
cultures considered "barbaric" by other civilizations, but some are from rich
cultures ...
10
The Social Compulsions of Ideas: Toward a Sociological ...
So if he acts in a certain way toward totemic beings. it is not only because the
forces resident in them are physically redoubtable. but because he feels himself
morally obligated to act thus: he has the feeling that he is obeying an imperative,
...
Gerard L. De Gré, Cyril H. Levitt
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOTEMIC»
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totemic is used in the context of the following news items.
The things we hold close to our hearts
I will venture to guess that I'm the first person to ascribe totemic significance to what seems to be an ordinary Croc sandal. (More about that later.) Lately I've ... «liherald.com, Jul 15»
Labour leadership candidates and shadow chancellor divided over …
The 50p tax rate was one of the signature policies adopted by Ed Miliband as a means of both reducing the deficit and inequality. The totemic measure has now ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
Grantham company pays tribute to finance director killed in A52 crash
Philip Rann, Chairman of Totemic, said: “We are all deeply saddened that Totemic has lost one of our key people who added the mortar to the fortress that is the ... «Grantham Journal, Apr 15»
NHS: Miliband refuses to sign up to 'totemic' £8bn increase
So Labour has once again refused to be lured into promising that now totemic £8bn extra for the NHS. In keeping with its pledge to be the party of fiscal ... «Channel 4 News, Apr 15»
Ed Miliband's war on non-doms shows whose side he is on
Totemic policies that announce what a party stands for are the gold dust of ... That remark became totemic too – redolent of a glimpsed lifestyle of yachts, Tory ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
Grantham schoolchildren learn to budget
The pupils from Marston Thorold's Charity C of E School visited Totemic in Grantham to experience the world of work, and gain skills in earning money and ... «Lincolnshire Echo, Mar 15»
Artists Georgia Hutchison and Luca Lana harness totemic power in …
The totemic power that Hutchison and Lana salute with their concrete pylon has work to do in the unconscious. Things that are only material are also mother or ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Mar 15»
'Totemic tax cut a threat to Met's resilience'
Mayor of London Boris Johnson is putting the future resilience of Britain's largest force in peril via his "totemic" cut to the amount paid by residents in council tax, ... «Police Oracle, Feb 15»
Colleagues at Grantham's Totemic complete punishing bike ride for …
Nine riders from Grantham firm Totemic and associated business Stake Your Claim took part in the aptly-named Peak District Punisher on Sunday. Colleagues ... «Grantham Journal, Oct 14»
Miliband looks at health tax as defining feature of manifesto
But that reorganisation is not – by itself – seen by Mr Miliband as sufficiently totemic to capture the imagination of the voters. Nor may it be enough to ease the ... «Financial Times, Aug 14»
