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totem
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By 1926-27, in works like Forest and The Large Forest, any trace of painting-as-usual has been eliminated in favor of a futuristic totemism fusing archeological and natural elements and setting the stage on which his deepest explorations would take place.
Theories that link totemism and hunting with sacrifice would seem to bear directly on the Ogbaseri story, but it also provides a metaphorical explanation for the way epidemics exceed socially acceptable limits by claiming too many human lives in one stroke.
Eric Kline Silverman brings literacy, secrecy, gender and tourist art into his comparison of Eastern Iatmul and Australian Aboriginal totemism and mythological time.
 
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