ANT 220 Chapter 7: Chapter Seven
13 Feb 2019
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~ chapter seven: what can anthropology tell us about. How do anthropologists study worldviews: people everywhere use symbols. used, symbols: something that stands for something else, a symbol signals the presence of an important domain of experience. Technological metaphors: a worldview metaphor that employs objects made by human beings as metaphorical. What is religion? predicates: the most familiar form of worldview is religion, religion: ideas and practices that postulate reality beyond that which is immediately available to the senses, anthropologists a. f. c. Wallace proposed a set of minimal categories of religious behavior that describe many of the practices usually associated with religion: In many societies, the experience of ecstasy, euphoria, dissociation, or hallucination seems to be a goal of religious effort: exhortation. Some people believe that the cosmic power in such objects or people may: objects or people that may not be touched are taboo.
