ANTH 403 : Notes_February_9.docx
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Notion that everything is alive conscioud possessed of a soul. Belief in personified supernatural beings endowed with reason, intelligence volition and other human attributes and abilities. Deep and abiding view that the world is an enchanted place. Be cautious because just like people gods are volital. To personify is to represent an anumal an inantimate object, an abstraction a natural or supernatural phenomenon as a person. When supernatural phenomenon are personifies they are incariably given certain human qualities of behavior. Anthropo-pshychic- have mentalities like those of human members of society. Anthropo-social- able to perceive human actions and interact with people and are intellectually aware of the values of society. God started the earth and put it together like a finly honed watch and then walked away from it and left it ticking. If this god was envisioned today you"d walk away from it.
