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totem
[tō′təm]
an animal, plant, force of nature, or inanimate object that represents the tribal ancestor of a clan. It also serves as a tutelary spirit and protector and may communicate through oracles.


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They have their individual totemistic object, tjuringa, which is the heart of their individual and collective identity to be confirmed in repeated dancing and singing; he has his creative work to reiterate, now as The Songlines, which is confirmed as a valid performance when we engage in active reading.
Injury, suspension and, in one instance, team selection, have all deprived the Australian team at various times of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, but this is the first match in which they have to contemplate the reality of life without two bowlers whose achievements gave them totemistic status.
It would also explain why Mitchell has trouble claiming the totem status of Antony Gormley's monolith statues, and why he reveals in a throwaway footnote that he prefers the idolatrous concerts of the self-contained Bob Dylan over the communal concerts of the totemistic Bruce Spring-steen.
 
 
 
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