RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Complex Number, Zande People, Fornication
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We go back to prehistory because we need to identify starting points so this helps us see variations on the original themes. Early anthropologists used to think that modern people outgrown superstitions and magical practises of earlier phases as humanity obtained a scientific understanding of the world, and this pushed these beliefs. Lucien levy-bruhl: his views are rejected now he thought that premodern mentalities looked at the world in a different way featuring things like mystical orientation. The way pre-moderner looked at the world was based on their feelings. The world around them was organized in terms of attachment, repulsion, safety and danger. Premodern people tended to credit extraordinary states more insightful. World isn"t a series of discreet objects it"s a very complex network where everything is intertwined. Everything was connected he said premodern thinkers are pre logical. In premodern mentalities, they don"t think themselves as apart from he world but situated fully within it.
