ANT100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Dont, Djembe, Autoimmune Disease
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Chapter 3 : the social and cultural construction of reality. How can people believe in god when his existence can never be proven. How can they believe in things that are considered illogical. People believe in these things and take these beliefs for granted: these came about through people"s basic phenomena, such as death and dreaming. Once they believed in souls, it was a small step to reason that there were places where departed souls resided and an even smaller step to believe that souls became gods. Beliefs in god and spirits developed through the attempts of human beings to explain certain events, to understand why things happened as they did. The beliefs and rituals may have increased group cohesion or provided supernatural sanctions for the violation of group norms. Today anthropologist try to understand religion not by the premise that people"s beliefs are irrational or incorrect.
