HUMA 1865 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mircea Eliade, Caribou Inuit, Ganachakra
7 Feb 2018
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We are not separate from nature, we are a part. Conjures up savagery, simplistic living, colonialists treat them with arrogance because they come from civilization. Primitive traditions--extensive instruction and complex ritual they are not primitive. The jewish community worldwide is smaller yet it considered a world religion. Yet beliefs of the yuda are small scale. Infancy, raw emotion, early development in evolution pre conceived notion of what a religion ought to be. We must be aware of our bias. Oral tradition-the way they pass down stories. Ignore the fact that some indigenous people have written traditions. Many world religions have oral traditions as well. Writing of the history comes much later. Only oral based or to say they are illiterate is to not understand. Indigenous traditions and change and evolve, as does happen in other so called world religions. We must be wary of the adjectives we use to describe indigenous religions.
