Not To Study or Not to Study, But How?
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Jonathan Z. Smith: Religion is solely the creation of the scholar's study
- Solving the problem of ambiguous classifications
- Claude Levi Strauss' views on anthropology
- A method of finding 'the unshakable basis of human society'
- The need to study the most basic and primitive
- Geertz criticizm of Levi Strauss' method
- This inability to fully understand one culture
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
Abstract
To highlight what constitutes the foundation of Man, anthropologists, ethnographers, and theologians like Jonathan Smith, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Clifford Geertz constantly study "savage" societies, societies very different from our own. Scholars endlessly debate which characteristics all people possess and try to find a definition of religion that holds true for all societies and all religions, yet they never seem to consider the large discrepancies in research methods.
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