REL 2000 Chapter : RQ 8 Evans Pritchard
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7, society"s construct of the heart," pp. Evans-pritchard is a religion theorist who lived in two different primitive cultures. He lived as they did, like learning their language. Evan-pritchard"s approach is different than the arm chair theorist like tylor and frazer. 230: many previous scholars had thought primitive people had a different way of thinking than modern people. Evans-pritchard believed that the primitive people did not exactly have. They have the same thought process as modern people. This has changes the thought process of modern people because it has helped people realize how natural their thought process is. He was saying that other theorist just tried to put themselves in the primitive people"s shoes. Evan-s pritchard can make this critique because he literally put himself in the primitive people"s shoes. He lived with different cultures for years, and really lived as the people did (pg.
