The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
CHAPTER III
TOTEMIC BELIEFS--(_continued_)
_The Cosmological System of Totemism and the Idea of Class_
I.--The classification of things into clans, phratries and classes 141
II.--Genesis of the notion of class: the first classifications of
things take their forms from society--Differences between the
sentiment of the differences of things and the idea of class--
Why this is of social origin 144
III.--Religious significance of these classifications: all of
the things classified into a clan partake of the nature of the
totem and its sacred character--The cosmological system of
totemism--Totemism as the tribal religion 148