ANTH 150 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Leslie Spier, Wounded Knee Incident, Unilineality
10 Apr 2017
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Key terms and concepts to be familiar with: Beliefs - worldview , invisible beings or forces, moral order. Practices - ritual and worship, moral behavior. Worldviews and meaning making = the framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual interprets the world and interacts with it. Edward b. tylor on the development of religion religion in primitive culture. James p. frazer on the development of religion the golden bough. Argued religious thought evolved from a belief in magic to religion to science. Both reflected eurocentric assumptions of the time but developed a social evolutionary and hierarchical perspective on religion. Bronislaw malinowski: participant observation, fieldwork, function of religion= the stuff of culture all fulfill a social function. Witchcraft, oracles, and magic among the azande, 1937. Evans-prichard (know all aspects of his case study and its significance to the anthropological study of religion) studied it, lived in the culture, started to believe it.
