ANTH 3320 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Faith Healing, Capitalism, Scientific Method
7 Apr 2016
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Early anthropology of religion: unilineal social evoluion. The idea that evoluion is not just biology or environment, but including social and cultural factors. Assumpion that all socieies of the world would follow the universal path of evoluion. European represented the evoluionary points, becomes the idea image of evoluion process. Diferent styles of thinking is a lower state of development [inferiority] Evoluion is adequate to progress of improving themselves. Interested in researching how animisic thinking is represented among people. Tyler"s concern and explanaion illed the gap of the quesion about phenomenon of dream and death, whether there is anything surviving ater the death of physical body. The noion that things have spirit is assumed by tylor to be the earliest thinking of religion to explain mysterious things. Animism: everything in the world is animated by spirit. Many early anthropologists believe this is the origin of religion.
