REL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tea Garden, Altaic Languages, Folk Religion
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Tea garden workers were slaves average: 36. 25 cents per day. Till 1936 one could adquire a permit to hunt people of south africa. Til 1960 the australian aborigines were considered under the protection law of the flora and fauna (people and flowers were worth the same) Indigenous people: hold the ancient/primal culture (hunter gather) and lifestyle, they are minorities. They are like us but live in a simple way. Animism: the life is present in everything thus everything should be respected. Life is seen as a journey where the afterlife is just another part of the journey. There is no time, life is a journey. Thus they resemble the forces and phenomena of nature. Almost none of them are solely food or solely bad. Except for the ancestral spirits who are mostl y benevolent. Some adopted deities from bigger religions also bigger religions have adopted many deities. In their oral tradition both cosmological and transcendental deities are present.
