I added a hashtag #Totemism, some new version of totemism might ameliorate some of the pressures on biodiversity ?

Me, being that guy, at a recent brainstorming session on revisiting the lens of #totemism in #religiology:

– Sure, aboriginal evidence inspired Durkheim and Freud to theoretical breakthroughs, but how are totems relevant to, say, the contemporary European context?

After all, these are not societies where subgroups congregate to commune with each other and with unseen entities at sites associated with emblematic totem animals. Uh, wait a minute …