ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Human Spirit

• School: UTM
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT102H5
• Professor: Victor Barac

Document Summary

Latin term: religare: bind or tie together. Religion represented a form of thinking that would become superseded by language. His books were popular and they were best sellers: the golden bough (1890) Not the same thing as a soul. Nominal: not directly observable by humans: have power, ethics: you cannot observe this its in the psyche, you cannot observe justice, love o. Force and luck: hebrew el, refers to impersonal force, greek dynamis, word for dynamic, latin noumena a, polynesia mana. In chiefdom societies, commoner are not allowed look at them a: from heaven, powerful force c. How much of the universe is dark matter: Less then five percent matter is conventional matter: planets, star. All religions have a narrative component and a ritual component. Myth and ritual both interact: inter depended. Holly books: myth and holy days: ritual: myth, as carriers of central values, narrative body of the cultures most cherished beliefs and values, ritual.