Totemism « Today » ? 
In Totemism (1962, in French Totemism Today) Lévi-Strauss was convinced to achieve and close one of the major controversies in anthropology (and anthropology of religion) on a conceptual category whose consistency and transcultural relevance have been harshly discussed. The pioneer of structuralism in anthropology made a significant shift from an approach focusing on the alleged universal features of totemic cults, toward the structural analysis of classification properties and dualist organizations. He consequently discredited the issue of totemism and attempted to dissolve the concept itself. But almost half a century after the first edition, Totemism did not actually remove from the main concept « totemism » its heuristic potential. This paper finally points at some of the new uses of a concept the rebirth of which is discreet, but meaningful.