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... for instance, is very interested in a book which she finds really cool. She shows me a few pages of it, in which pictures of CD covers from hard rock and heavy metal bands are surrounded by pictures of entirely different things, such as a flower, a teddy bear, a puppet, or the like. She explains tha ...
... for instance, is very interested in a book which she finds really cool. She shows me a few pages of it, in which pictures of CD covers from hard rock and heavy metal bands are surrounded by pictures of entirely different things, such as a flower, a teddy bear, a puppet, or the like. She explains tha ...
E. B. Tylor - Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement
... In discussing problems so complex as those of the development of civilization, it is not enough to put forward theories accompanied by a few illustrative facts. The statement of the facts must form the staple of the argument [my italics] ... Should it seem to any readers that my attempt ... sometime ...
... In discussing problems so complex as those of the development of civilization, it is not enough to put forward theories accompanied by a few illustrative facts. The statement of the facts must form the staple of the argument [my italics] ... Should it seem to any readers that my attempt ... sometime ...
Primitive Mind
... were questioned by Tylor and others who argued that human nature and all human societies shared some things in common, such as religion. In direct contrast to Christian theology, primitive societies seen as godless in character were shown by Tylor to have basic religions and that the idea of religio ...
... were questioned by Tylor and others who argued that human nature and all human societies shared some things in common, such as religion. In direct contrast to Christian theology, primitive societies seen as godless in character were shown by Tylor to have basic religions and that the idea of religio ...
Animism is the religious belief attributing a spiritual
... the natural environment. Animism may further attribute souls to abstractconcepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology. Animism is a belief held in many religions around the world, and is not, as some have purported, a type of religion in itself. It is a belief, such as shamanism, pol ...
... the natural environment. Animism may further attribute souls to abstractconcepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology. Animism is a belief held in many religions around the world, and is not, as some have purported, a type of religion in itself. It is a belief, such as shamanism, pol ...
Animism
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Animism (from Latin anima, ""breath, spirit, life"") is the worldview that non-human entities—such as animals, plants, and inanimate objects—possess a spiritual essence.Animism is used in the anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of some indigenous tribal peoples, especially prior to the development of organized religion. Although each culture has its own different mythologies and rituals, ""animism"" is said to describe the most common, foundational thread of indigenous peoples' ""spiritual"" or ""supernatural"" perspectives. The Animistic perspective is so fundamental, mundane, everyday and taken-for-granted that most animistic indigenous people do not even have a word in their languages that corresponds to ""animism"" (or even ""religion""); the term is an anthropological construct.Largely due to such ethnolinguistic and cultural discrepancies, opinion has differed on whether animism refers to a broad religious belief or to a full-fledged religion in its own right. The currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the late 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as ""one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first"".Animism encompasses the belief that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical (or material) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in some other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment, including thunder, wind, and shadows. Animism thus rejects Cartesian dualism. Animism may further attribute souls to abstract concepts such as words, true names, or metaphors in mythology. Some members of the non-tribal world also consider themselves animists (such as author Daniel Quinn, sculptor Lawson Oyekan, and many Neopagans).