ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Nelson Mandela, Syncretism
13 Apr 2014
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Robin horton: african traditional thought and western science . Syncretism, syncretic: mix of different religions (sometimes due to colonization) Canadians sacri ce humans now too: view of the world that is fundamentally problematic, child sacri ces are incredibly rare in africa or anywhere in the world (occult/religious, extremists, adjectives associated, africans . Evans pritchard: rst world to fundamentally say that africans are not irrational, reasoning is logically coherent as anyone else in the world. Difference between african and western scienti c thought. Real differences: most haven"t quite grasped the concepts and differences. I. e. angry ancestor spirit who harms somebody because they did something wrong. Motivation behind it: scienti c thought is based on impersonal idioms. Because of impersonal forces such as weather: african thought is same structural thinking but different idiom. Basic arguments: 1) distinguishes common practical" thought from theoretical" thought . Theory (1: 1) the quest for explanatory theory is essentially the quest:
