Totem
2017
“The notion of ‘myth’ is a category of our thought which we use arbitrarily in order to bring together under one word attempts to explain natural phenomena, products of oral literature, philosophical speculations, and cases where linguistic processes emerged to full consciousness. Similarly, totemism is an artificial unity, existing solely in the mind of the anthropologist, to which nothing specifically corresponds in reality.”
Lévi-Strauss, C. (1991). Totemism. Merlin Press.
Authors: Mikheil Mikadze, Oyat Shukurov, Aleksandra Ivashkevich