ANT100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rodney Needham, James George Frazer, Joachim Lambek
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Rather, they are extracutural, that is beyond the bounds of human culture as the people of. Mayotte conceive it : geertz (1973) has characterized religion as the realm of the really real, those beliefs and behaviors and imperatives and institutions that are the most important, most permanent, most. The problem of studying religion anthropologically: the anthropology approach to religion involves, a cross-cultural, holistic, and relativistic perspective. A set of rituals rationalized by myth, which mobilizes supernatural powers for the purpose of achieving or preventing transformations of state in man and nature. (wallace 1966) Functions of religions: malinowski emphasized religion"s role in filling individual needs, especially psychological or emotional, such as comfort and hope, durkheim, who focused on the social force which results from ritual behavior, creating almost a. Group mind, a collective conscience, or at least a common experience. Religion also explains why did things happen in the present.
