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Sex Totemism

The sociological definition of sex totemism, the specialisation of the relation between the two sexes within totemism, with the academic source.

Letter S capitalised.

Academic Definition of Sex Totemism

[within totemism] is the specialisation of the relation of the two sexes.

(Kuper, 1988: 53)

References

Kuper, A. (1988). Radcliffe-Brown and Rivers: a correspondence. Canberra Anthropology, 11(1), pp.49–81.

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