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Max Charlesworth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Anthropological Approaches to ‘Primitive’ Religions
Sophia, 2009Co-Authors: Max CharlesworthAbstract:The study of religion by social anthropologists, as distinct from the classical philosophical approach of the Greeks and their medieval heirs, began in the late 19th century with Edward Tyler’s Primitive Culture (1871). Tyler’s approach was completely a priori in style in that it did not rest on systematic field work or empirical observation. The same approach characterized James Frazer’s famous book, The Golden Bough (1891). Baldwin Spencer, the founding father of Australian anthropology, was persuaded by Frazer to see the sophisticated religious beliefs and rites of the Aboriginal groups he studied in central Australia as mere ‘magic’. By the 1960s, a new generation of anthropologists, influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss and English thinkers like E. Evans Pritchard, had arrived on the scene. This new ‘turn’ in anthropology led a number of contemporary scholars to the radical position that Western anthropology itself is a socio-cultural phenomenon that can be investigated in a broadly anthropological way. To see what this involves, it is worthwhile examining a number of crucial misunderstandings of Australian Aboriginal beliefs and practices that have been the artefactual result of various anthropological approaches.
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Anthropological Approaches to ‘Primitive’ Religions
Sophia, 2009Co-Authors: Max CharlesworthAbstract:The study of religion by social anthropologists, as distinct from the classical philosophical approach of the Greeks and their medieval heirs, began in the late 19th century with Edward Tyler’s Primitive Culture (1871). Tyler’s approach was completely a priori in style in that it did not rest on systematic field work or empirical observation. The same approach characterized James Frazer’s famous book, The Golden Bough (1891). Baldwin Spencer, the founding father of Australian anthropology, was persuaded by Frazer to see the sophisticated religious beliefs and rites of the Aboriginal groups he studied in central Australia as mere ‘magic’. By the 1960s, a new generation of anthropologists, influenced by Claude Levi-Strauss and English thinkers like E. Evans Pritchard, had arrived on the scene. This new ‘turn’ in anthropology led a number of contemporary scholars to the radical position that Western anthropology itself is a socio-cultural phenomenon that can be investigated in a broadly anthropological way. To see what this involves, it is worthwhile examining a number of crucial misunderstandings of Australian Aboriginal beliefs and practices that have been the artefactual result of various anthropological approaches.
Zheng Xu-wen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Explanation of Miao Minority's Customary Law in Southeast Guizhou In Qing Dynasty from View of Legal Anthropology
Journal of Guizhou Normal College, 2011Co-Authors: Zheng Xu-wenAbstract:Miao minority of Southeast Guizhou gradually developed a rich set of customary law system in the long historical period of its development.To Qing Dynasty,the customary law became a major force in maintaining the operation of the internal social order of Miao minority of Southeast Guizhou.The organizations of Gushe,Yilang and Lilao as the three pillars of the Miao society played a key role in the executive mechanism of customary law.From the perspective of legal anthropology,the customary law of the Miao nationality is also a reflection of mountain agricultural-hunting economic culture in the area of the Miao nationality.The Primitive Religions,taboos,ecological environment and social customs have profound impact on the existence,development and application of its customary law.
Tan Qing-hu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Inheritance and Dissolution of the Religious Culture in Liuzhou City
Journal of Hubei Institute for Nationalities, 2007Co-Authors: Tan Qing-huAbstract:Liuzhou,as a part of the Shizhou site for the national key unit of cultural relics protection,occupying a special geograpghical position in the important hole path of Qingjiang valley,enjoys a unique religious cultural feature.Thus the amalgamated development is an evolutional process during which Tujia Primitive Religions inherited and dissolved with foreign Religions.
Liu Rong-kun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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On Yunnan Minority Primitive Religions from the Prospective of Ecology Civilization
Journal of Honghe University, 2009Co-Authors: Liu Rong-kunAbstract:Yunnan minority Primitive Religions contain the ecological idea that human and nature coexist harmoniously.A positive cycle of ecology civilization construction emphasizes the harmonious development of "person and nature,person and person,person and social",so we should use fully the wisdom of the Primitive Religions to serve ecology civilization construction.
Zhong Li-qian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Features of the Primitive Religions of Fujian:A Perspective of Tanshi Hill Culture
Journal of Xiamen University, 2004Co-Authors: Zhong Li-qianAbstract:Religion is a special type of social ideology. The Primitive religion in the prehistoric society is characterized by animism and nature worship. The Primitive horde believed that everything in the natural world was spiritual and it could control their social-cultural activities. The intention of pulling out a tooth, funeral rites of cutting limbs, Primitive magic and totem symbol discovered in Tanshi Hill Culture of the lower reach of Min River, reflect the contents and features of the Primitive religion of the prehistoric Fujian.