Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference (한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집)

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The Study of Chinese Totem Design:Using the Gestalt Psychology

게슈탈트 심리학을 활용한 중국 토템디자인 연구

  • Cheng, Cheng (Design & IT Graduate School, Dongseo University) ;
  • Lee, Jinho (Design & IT Graduate School, Dongseo University)
  • 정성 (동서대학교 디자인 & IT 전문대학원) ;
  • 이진호 (동서대학교 디자인 & IT 전문대학원)
  • Published : 2009.05.22
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Abstract

Totem culture is a basic culture in all countries. A totem is any supposed entity that watches over or assists a group of people,such as a family,clan,or tribe.(Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition).Totems support larger groups than an individual person. In kinship and descent,if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman,it is called a totem. Normally this belief is accompanied by a totemic myth. And for the ages past,many totems for family. clan and tribe merged in one or two which comes to be a totem culture. We can know many things from the totem of our Ancestors.

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