ANTH 3348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Johann Jakob Bachofen, Edward Burnett Tylor, Syncretism
8 Feb 2017
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Syncretism practicing more than one religion. Religions are not always completely unified, they are not monolithic, there is often debate, disagreement and differences within a religious institution. The founding fathers : evolutionists influenced by charles darwin, his idea of survival of the fittest was often distorted by evolutionists when they applied it to human society. They distorted it to mean that there was a superiority of more civilized societies, which were then assumed to be more fit or worthy of survival: the evolutionists sought the following in their studies: Order and sequence they often ordered events and cultures chronologically or according to their idea of which culture was better or more advanced . Origin trying to find the first of something. Ranking they often ranked institutions into hierarchies, most civilized vs least civilized: unilineal evolutionists: Edward tylor"s religion in primitive culture: tylor attributed the cause of ancestor worship to curiosity about the soul.
