Discussion
'Totem' is
Answer: D
A totem is a natural object, usually an animal or plant, adopted as the emblem of a clan, and it carries rules of social life: who may marry whom and what may or may not be eaten or killed. The key therefore takes the answer that describes it as prescriptive rules of socio-cultural life (option D).
Cultural item of social life (A) and beliefs in folklife (C) are too general, since almost anything in folklife is a cultural item or a belief. Rituals (B) are acts, whereas a totem is an object of respect that fixes the rules of the group.
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