Totemism, one form of cosmology, is

A. a synonym for folklore.
B. a system, in this case a religious one, for imagining and understanding the universe.
C. Claude Lévi-Strauss's term to describe the binary oppositions prevalent in religious myths all over the world.
D. the emic concept of spirituality.
E. the etic explanation of people's view on human agency.


Answer: B

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