此文介绍了“图腾制”一词的来历、本意、早期使用情况及后来被滥用的情况，指出“图腾制”以及“万物有灵论”之类的术语是从把所有非基督教、非欧洲的文化视为劣等文化的欧洲中心论思想衍生出来的，从而导致许多与现代民族学资料不符的错误论断的出现。西方人类学和比较宗教学研究者已不再使用这类术语。 This essay introduces the origins, meanings, early uses and subsequent abuses of the term “totemism” and points out that terms such as “totemism” and “animism of all things” mean that all terms from non-Christian, non-European Of the culture as the inferior culture derived from European centralism, resulting in many inconsistent with modern ethnology misleading assertion. Western anthropology and comparative religion researchers no longer use these terms.