totems

What Lévi-Strauss concluded about totems can be applied to dioramas, too.

Left intact was the building’s underground vault where couples and aspiring paramours from around the globe have secreted their totems and messages in tiny Love Boxes.

That’s no different from the way the first season tricked us into obsessing over those mud and hair totems and whisperings about the Yellow King for nothing.

The knives are miniature versions of Rukai hunting knives, while the plates and bowls are printed with the tribe's totems.

Guns, Mann and Lewis seem to say, aren’t actually totems of freedom or liberty or youth; they are instruments of death and should be treated accordingly.