ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Animism, Edward Burnett Tylor
12 Sep 2018
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Separation: often involves physical separation or isolation from a particular group, can involve symbols of separation (cutting hair, wearing different clothes, think of military hair cuts: Liminality: a stage of being betwixt-and-between identities, a transitional zone/time, eg. think about how students are liminal beings , develop a sense of communitas. When you are fully reintegrated into society with a new status/identity. A slippery term: a western concept like work/economy/politics/technology. In western society, religion is mostly seen as a clearly delineated aspect of society, separate from the other terms above. Theories on the origins of religion: animism, mana. Sir edward burnett tylor/animism: tylor was a founder of the anthropology of religion, tylor thought, religion was born as a people tried to understand conditions and events they could not explain tylor_edward. Tylor, animism and polytheism img038: tylor believed that religion had evolved through stages, beginning with animism. Tyler-cont gods: polytheism, monotheism, tylor thought religion would decline as science offered better explanations.
