ANTH-2108 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Temporal Lobe, Castration Anxiety, Melford Spiro
9 Dec 2013
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The anthropological study of religion 28/09/2013 5:38:00 pm. Show the locations of many of the societies discussed within the text. Studying a society holistically requires a great deal of time to observe human behaviour and interview members of a society; the scope must be limited, and that"s why anthropologists normally study small remote communities. Students are first introduced to small communities, i. e. , foraging bands, small horticultural villages, and pastoral nomadic groups: ex. Southwest), yanomamo (northern south america), murngin (northern australia, san (southern africa) Societies seen as primitive ; pejorative term -> better to say small-scale societies. World"s great religions: judaism, christianity, islam, buddhism: similar in the way that they originate with one founder (moses, christ, mohammad, buddha) Goal is to study the broad range if human beliefs/behaviours; only possible through cross-cultural comparisons. Farming with advanced gathering, hunting, husbandry hand tools technology fishing.
