ANTH 2550 Lecture Notes - Charismatic Authority, Membranophone, Totem
29 Aug 2014
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Ideal type is a conceptualization composed of a collection of characteristic elements or attributes of a phenomenon. Charismatic authority is based on the extraordinary quality of rational-legal legitimated by the law legally qualified office-holder. Marx"s thesis is based on the myth of prometheus. Criticism of religion is premise of all criticism (tf). Religion is the consciousness of the alienated person: religion is the self-consciousness and self-feeling of man who has either not yet found himself or has already himself again (tf). Man makes religion; religion does not make man (tf). This state, this society produce religion, reversed world- consciousness, because they are a reversed world (tf). Thesis xi: the philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it (tf). Marx is the estrangement of individuals from each other and/or a specific situation or process. It is a consequence of social structures that oppress people, denying them their humanity.
