A totem is a spirit being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe, such as in the Anishinaabe clan system.
A totem pole in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Yaxté totem pole, a Tlingit totem pole in Juneau, Alaska.
Personal totem of Mohegan Chief Tantaquidgeon, commemorated on a plaque at Norwich, Connecticut
A totem pole in Thunderbird Park, Victoria, British Columbia
David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology, and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along wi
A collection of Durkheim's courses on the origins of socialism (1896), edited and published by his nephew, Marcel Mauss, in 1928
Grave of Émile Durkheim, the founder of sociology, in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
Cover of the French edition of The Rules of Sociological Method (1919)