Totem pole

Japanese: totem pole(英語表記)totempole
Totem pole

...The specific natural species is called a totem, a word that comes from the Ojibwe word for American Indians. At first, it was thought to be a custom unique to American Indian tribes who made totem poles as totem images, but as the term totemism was created and examples were reported from various places such as Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, India, and Africa, it began to attract the interest of many researchers from the late 19th century. In particular, since there were many examples in Australian societies, which were thought to have the most primitive culture at the time, totemism was discussed as a question of the origin of religious phenomena in human history.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "totem pole" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その特定の自然種がトーテムtotemであるが,この語はアメリカ・インディアンのオジブワ族の言葉に由来する。はじめはトーテムの像として〈トーテム・ポールtotem pole〉を作るアメリカ・インディアン諸族に固有の習俗と思われていたが,トーテミズムという用語が生まれるとともに,オーストラリアやメラネシア,ポリネシア,インド,アフリカなど各地の事例が報告されるにつれ,19世紀後半から多くの研究者の関心を集めるようになった。とりわけ当時,最も原初的な文化をもつと考えられていたオーストラリア諸社会に豊富な事例が見いだされたこともあり,トーテミズムは人類史における宗教現象の起源の問題として論じられた。…

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