Shane Donaldson
... the gaps by resorting to analogy."11 Thus it all begins, in the groves of Aricia, amongst a priesthood in which leadership was transferred through a ritualized killing. Frazer, "explained the priest of Aricia - the king of the Wood - as an embodiment of a tree spirit,"12 and therefore a deity. Throu ...
... the gaps by resorting to analogy."11 Thus it all begins, in the groves of Aricia, amongst a priesthood in which leadership was transferred through a ritualized killing. Frazer, "explained the priest of Aricia - the king of the Wood - as an embodiment of a tree spirit,"12 and therefore a deity. Throu ...
Resenha A gringo studies Umbanda
... interpretive claims – placing Umbanda in it historical and cultural contexts – illustrates certain theoretical and methodological challenges that we face, as scholars of cultures other than our own. Because the book is so richly textured in its descriptive work and ambitious in its interpretive clai ...
... interpretive claims – placing Umbanda in it historical and cultural contexts – illustrates certain theoretical and methodological challenges that we face, as scholars of cultures other than our own. Because the book is so richly textured in its descriptive work and ambitious in its interpretive clai ...
Functionalists Write, Too: Frazer/Malinowski and the
... In comparison with works such as those of Frazer, Crawley, Westermarck, or Durkheim which we read at the time … , [Malinowski’s] work seemed lively and stimulating, and we began actually to visualize ourselves ‘in the field.’ The couvade was no longer a laughable eccentricity but a social mech ...
... In comparison with works such as those of Frazer, Crawley, Westermarck, or Durkheim which we read at the time … , [Malinowski’s] work seemed lively and stimulating, and we began actually to visualize ourselves ‘in the field.’ The couvade was no longer a laughable eccentricity but a social mech ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... cultures beliefs and practices. A culturally relative stance holds that all cultures are equally valid expressions of the human essence. So to understand what it is to be human, all cultures are valid sources of study. Cultural relativism requires that we try to understand other cultures by working ...
... cultures beliefs and practices. A culturally relative stance holds that all cultures are equally valid expressions of the human essence. So to understand what it is to be human, all cultures are valid sources of study. Cultural relativism requires that we try to understand other cultures by working ...
ArchPaperTory2
... popular notions in ethnography and anthropology, primitive societies are not “societies against violence;” they are not simply less developed, uncivilized people who will one day become learned and social beings like their Western counterparts. (139) He also notes that many surveyors of primitive so ...
... popular notions in ethnography and anthropology, primitive societies are not “societies against violence;” they are not simply less developed, uncivilized people who will one day become learned and social beings like their Western counterparts. (139) He also notes that many surveyors of primitive so ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... As we go through the semester you will likely encounter beliefs and practices that you find wrong, or strange. Work to be conscious of your own ethnocentrism during the semester. Cultural Relativism is a perspective adopted by anthropologists in the early 1900’s as an “antidote” to ethnocentrism. It ...
... As we go through the semester you will likely encounter beliefs and practices that you find wrong, or strange. Work to be conscious of your own ethnocentrism during the semester. Cultural Relativism is a perspective adopted by anthropologists in the early 1900’s as an “antidote” to ethnocentrism. It ...
Anthropology of Magic - Fullerton College Staff Web Pages
... Sociobiology (generally associated with non-human primates) & Evolutionary Psychology (sociobiology applied to humans): Sociobiollgy takes natural selection one step further. It states that “nature” not only selects physical traits which increase fitness but nature selects for behaviors that increas ...
... Sociobiology (generally associated with non-human primates) & Evolutionary Psychology (sociobiology applied to humans): Sociobiollgy takes natural selection one step further. It states that “nature” not only selects physical traits which increase fitness but nature selects for behaviors that increas ...
an Open Access Journal by MDPI
... thought and practice. It is available online to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive conversations. Religions promotes interdisciplinary approaches to any of the world’s religious / spiritual traditions. It publishes regular research papers, reviews, communications and repor ...
... thought and practice. It is available online to promote critical, hermeneutical, historical, and constructive conversations. Religions promotes interdisciplinary approaches to any of the world’s religious / spiritual traditions. It publishes regular research papers, reviews, communications and repor ...
The Concept of Religion in Current Studies of
... it can really be applied at all as a universal or cross-cultural category (e.g. Asad 1993; Fitzgerald 1997; cf. Saler 1993; for an overview of the discussion, see McCutcheon 1997). Those who advocate this standpoint further speak of the problems of demarcating the concept in such a way as to allow i ...
... it can really be applied at all as a universal or cross-cultural category (e.g. Asad 1993; Fitzgerald 1997; cf. Saler 1993; for an overview of the discussion, see McCutcheon 1997). Those who advocate this standpoint further speak of the problems of demarcating the concept in such a way as to allow i ...
The supernatural in Hong Kong young people`s ghost stories1
... The criticism that the anthropologist defines what is part of reality takes relativism to an extreme. Klass (1995:31–32) minimises the importance of the fact that we know the rainmaker is only symbolically effective, while the agricultural expert is instrumentally effective. I would argue, instead, ...
... The criticism that the anthropologist defines what is part of reality takes relativism to an extreme. Klass (1995:31–32) minimises the importance of the fact that we know the rainmaker is only symbolically effective, while the agricultural expert is instrumentally effective. I would argue, instead, ...
E. B. Tylor - Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement
... translation; this indeed may be what differentiates them from straight sociologists more than either realizes. And here in Tylor, it seems to me, is the germ of an idea that LéviStrauss has approached from a different angle in his recently translated book – the idea that there are two broadly differ ...
... translation; this indeed may be what differentiates them from straight sociologists more than either realizes. And here in Tylor, it seems to me, is the germ of an idea that LéviStrauss has approached from a different angle in his recently translated book – the idea that there are two broadly differ ...
Marx and Vivekananda on Socialism
... needs, less work, no oppression, no war, more food. What guarantee have we that this, or any civilization, will last unless it is based on religion, on the goodness of the man? Religion goes to the roots of the matter. If it is right, all is right. Socialism, as conceived today is a product of mater ...
... needs, less work, no oppression, no war, more food. What guarantee have we that this, or any civilization, will last unless it is based on religion, on the goodness of the man? Religion goes to the roots of the matter. If it is right, all is right. Socialism, as conceived today is a product of mater ...
The Anthropological Study of Religion in China
... Chinese society, which consequently creates new sets of relations and institutions. As time goes by, the concepts may be indigenised but never entirely able to describe the social world. In other words, by creating things anthropological or religious, both “anthropology” and “religion” leave some in ...
... Chinese society, which consequently creates new sets of relations and institutions. As time goes by, the concepts may be indigenised but never entirely able to describe the social world. In other words, by creating things anthropological or religious, both “anthropology” and “religion” leave some in ...
Between Animatism and Pantheism: Religion and the Supernatural
... animatistic beliefs; 2) Zapotec religion unified city-states into a cohesive identity and, perhaps, formed a specific ancient Zapotec imaginary; and 3) Mitla’s significance cannot be overstated. As many scholars of Oaxaca and of ancient Mesoamerican religion in general know, there is a paucity of li ...
... animatistic beliefs; 2) Zapotec religion unified city-states into a cohesive identity and, perhaps, formed a specific ancient Zapotec imaginary; and 3) Mitla’s significance cannot be overstated. As many scholars of Oaxaca and of ancient Mesoamerican religion in general know, there is a paucity of li ...
Preface to the 2000 Frazer Lecture, “Time and difference in the
... field situation. This has stamped anthropological thought with a pervasive atemporalism, of which one token has been a strong penchant for spatial or co-temporal modes of representation and explanation, for privileging diagrams over narratives. Going with this has been a heavy reliance on one princi ...
... field situation. This has stamped anthropological thought with a pervasive atemporalism, of which one token has been a strong penchant for spatial or co-temporal modes of representation and explanation, for privileging diagrams over narratives. Going with this has been a heavy reliance on one princi ...
Maurice Godelier and the study of ideology
... analysis has to go both ways simultaneously, but no matter what direction an~lysisl it is a fact that happens to be the predominant in the specific an~lysis, by moulding one's analysis too rigidly on the principles contained in the above quotation, one makes it very difficult to accommodate the seco ...
... analysis has to go both ways simultaneously, but no matter what direction an~lysisl it is a fact that happens to be the predominant in the specific an~lysis, by moulding one's analysis too rigidly on the principles contained in the above quotation, one makes it very difficult to accommodate the seco ...
- Goldsmiths Research Online
... from everyday religious practice and complex issues such as globalization, transnationalism and hybrid identities. We would agree, and commend works in the anthropology of religion specifically for providing that ‘lived’ focus. Understanding the world from the informant’s perspective is the ethnogra ...
... from everyday religious practice and complex issues such as globalization, transnationalism and hybrid identities. We would agree, and commend works in the anthropology of religion specifically for providing that ‘lived’ focus. Understanding the world from the informant’s perspective is the ethnogra ...
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... As the argument unfolds, it becomes clear that Palmié sees in his historical project not so much a jumbled “stew” as what in passing he calls a “confection” (2013: 8, 12), which brings to mind the exquisitely delicate structures of spun sugar so important to Sidney Mintz’s (1987) exegesis of Atlanti ...
... As the argument unfolds, it becomes clear that Palmié sees in his historical project not so much a jumbled “stew” as what in passing he calls a “confection” (2013: 8, 12), which brings to mind the exquisitely delicate structures of spun sugar so important to Sidney Mintz’s (1987) exegesis of Atlanti ...
Chapter Four
... “a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set aside and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them” ...
... “a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set aside and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them” ...
Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic By Jack Hunter
... community. To Durkheim, then, religion was to do with the sacred, which he defined as things set apart and surrounded by prohibitions. For Durkheim, then, the sacred did not have to include supernatural concepts. Durkheim’s definition of religion could, for example, equally be applied to other social ...
... community. To Durkheim, then, religion was to do with the sacred, which he defined as things set apart and surrounded by prohibitions. For Durkheim, then, the sacred did not have to include supernatural concepts. Durkheim’s definition of religion could, for example, equally be applied to other social ...
Clifford James Geertz
... • Geertz himself argues for a “semiotic” concept of culture: “Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun," he states “I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but ...
... • Geertz himself argues for a “semiotic” concept of culture: “Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun," he states “I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but ...
Society and religion
... emphasized the cultural character of religions, he interpreted the origin and functioning of religions with his conception of collective unconsciousness. ...
... emphasized the cultural character of religions, he interpreted the origin and functioning of religions with his conception of collective unconsciousness. ...
ANT 3241 - CLAS Users
... The course is designed to assist students to increase (1) their general analytic skills for analyzing religion in an anthropological framework and (2) their specific knowledge about particular religious systems. We will first define religion operationally – i.e. distinguishing a subset of cultural p ...
... The course is designed to assist students to increase (1) their general analytic skills for analyzing religion in an anthropological framework and (2) their specific knowledge about particular religious systems. We will first define religion operationally – i.e. distinguishing a subset of cultural p ...
Theories about religions
Sociological and anthropological theories about religion (or theories of religion) generally attempt to explain the origin and function of religion. These theories define what they present as universal characteristics of religious belief and practice.