ANT360H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Zande People
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According to taylor : aw inspiring events, circumtances which allude to the super natural. Evans- pritchard: notions of witch craft for the azanda , is intertwind in everyday life. Witchcraft is the idiom in which azande explain misfortune. Geertz: religion connects proper conduct ( the order of things, the nature of reality) Trying to connect religion to a more comphresnable world view - the metaphyiscial inteprretation of religion. Religion consists in part with a ethos, because relgion intent to mobilze and orient peoples lives. An ethos provides a model for the world. Relgions explain models and aspects of the world religio(cid:374) do(cid:374)"t just seek to pro(cid:448)e e(cid:373)pir(cid:272)al data but much more deeper things. Create models of ethos by structuring it in law or instustializing it to create truth. Relgions give a guidance , or an authroative way of thinking of life. Human beings seek to not only live but in accordance of the world; live in reality.
