ABSTRACT

We had previously laid it down that the collective and undivided character of power in the primitive clans was bound up with the very nature of the mana from which it emanated, and with the originally collective and not indi­ vidual character of totemism. For individualized power, the first gleams of which we have just noted, to become possible, a transformation of totemism is necessary. We have now to give an account of this transformation and of its individuat­ ing qualities.