article - cross-cultural perspectives on explanatory coexistence Flashcards
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explanatory coexistence
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-coexistence of supernatural and natural explanations about the world
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why investigate the domains death, human origins and illness?
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- all can be attributed to hidden or unobservable causal agents
- all are associated with strong emotions
- all embedded in specific cultural scripts that coexist alongside current scientific understanding
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3 ways of integrating the natural and supernatural
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- synthetic thinking
- target dependent thinking
- integrated thinking
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tanna people/culture
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- low level of industrialization
- low level of education
- have maintained custom even though there are christian influences
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method
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- semi structured interviews about 3 domains
- 17 adults from diverse backgrounds and age
- 2 western style education, 15 no education
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findings - human origins
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- no integration of explanations
- > lack of conflict between between 2 explanations
- biblical creationist view: 10/17
- fully naturalistic explanation: 1/17
- other 6 talked about human origin on Tanna
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findings - death
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- usually natural explanations (illness, accidents, old age)
- supernatural: 1
- explanatory coexistence: 7
- target dependent thinking:?
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findings- illness
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- western influences - more info on proximate explanations of death
- solely nature: 3
- supernatural: 1
- coexistence: 10
- synthetic explanations: 3
- integrated: 3
