SRS 2172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Materialism, Viktor Frankl, Homo Economicus

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 2172
• Professor: Anne Vallely

Document Summary

More scholarly, birds-eye view of meta-analytic of indigenous studies. There is a danger of homogenizing the native. All these different categories under indigenous perspectives. From yanomami in south america to aboriginal of australia and cree of northern canada. Vine deloria: spoke in general terms about indigenous peoples juxtaposed with the westerner as a economic man. It can loose political power, if we emphasize differences then it looses power. Lynn white was equating economic man with judeo-christian worldview. Family resemblance: what to they share in common? i. Immanence of the sacred: the great spirit, or god is in the world, he is accessible here and now: perspectivialist/personhood: not something that human beings alone possess. Animated perspective of our soul is possible for all creatures. Animism has baggage, used by sociologists and anthropologists, early anthropology was all caught up in evolutionary perspective. Animism was de ned as something that was very early evolutionary but we grew towards monotheism.