The Anthropology of Religion
The Anthropology of Religion This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of…
Specifikacia The Anthropology of Religion
The Anthropology of Religion
This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. Its climax was Frazer's Golden Bough, which is a pillar of modernity second only to Darwin's Origin of Species. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthropology in the nineteenth century as a site of multiple intellectual developments.
When anthropologists went to see for themselves, they encountered formidable obstacles. But its notion of religion was entirely speculative. How to access a people's most profound understandings of the world and everything in it?
Holding fast to the premise that ethnographers have no special powers of seeing inside other people's brains, this book teaches students to proceed slowly, a step at a time,
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