ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emic And Etic, Reductionism, World View
27 Mar 2019
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Going to place with religion and describing and participating in these religious activities. Situating religion in relation to other social issues or concerns. Make links btwn religion and other domains of society. Developing a theory or theories about religious activities. Emic: insider"s view -- explanation in terms that are meaningful within the culture. Etic: analyst"s (outsider"s) view -- explanation in general theoretical terms. Anthropology of religion tries to balance emic and etic perspectives. Marxist: "religion is the opium of the masses" karl marx. Religion is like a drug that ordinary people are fed by authority figures to make them submissive by promising them happiness in the afterlife if they follow the rules in their current life. Religious doctrines obscure actual relations of production that keep wealthy in positions of power and maintain masses in poverty. Freud: wish fulfillment = desire satisfied through imagination, fantasy -- religion presents happy afterlife as reward for suffering in this world.
