ANth Flashcards
What is Ethnography?
The scientific description of a social action collected through participant observation
What is Religion defined by Morris?
A social institution and a sociology-cultural system
What did Morris believe about religion?
That it is misunderstood when viewed as an ideological system or belief
How does Yinger define religion?
How a group of people struggle with the ultimate problems of human life
Which aspects of religion were Wacquant and Malinowski most focused on?
The mundane, and trivial — what people did outside of rituals
What did Metcalf believe about religion?
That anthropologists see religion as lived experiences, rather than texts on a shelf
How did Eller see region?
As the scientific study of the diversity of humans
What are the 7 attributes of religion?
1) Ritual practice
2) Ethical code and body of doctrine
3) Belief
4 )Scripture
5) Oral tradition
6) Patterns of social relations
7) Hierarchy of ritual specialists
What are the last two attributes of religion?
Tendency to create dichotomy between the sacred and profane + An ethos’s that gives scope for emotional or mystical experiences
What did Jackson believe about religion?
That people cannot be reduced to text, any more so could they be reduced to objects
What is religion to those who believe in it?
It is a tangible reality
How does Frazier define religion?
As a higher power superior to man who controls and directs nature and human life
How does William see religion?
The feelings and experiences of man to what they consider as divine.
What are the two parts Radin talks about when defining religion?
As a specific feeling, and the customs, belief and conceptions associated with the particular feeling
What is another definition of religion?
Culture taken to the extreme with the use of the nonhuman
