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What are totemistic rituals?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Define communal religious practices.
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

Rituals during which members of a kinship group focus on their totem, a natural object with which they are associated.

Answer to Question 2

These are religious practices in which the members of a group cooperate in the performance of rituals intended to benefit all.



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