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One of the ways in which the mind has appeared in this class is the ethical aspect of anthropology. Anthropologists are social scientists. Like scientists, they are interested in the real world, and want to know about people by observing and recordings empirical facts about them. Unlike scientists of the natural world, however, they cannot and do not want to treat people as if they were things. Rather we want to enter another person' | One of the ways in which the mind has appeared in this class is the ethical aspect of anthropology. Anthropologists are social scientists. Like scientists, they are interested in the real world, and want to know about people by observing and recordings empirical facts about them. Unlike scientists of the natural world, however, they cannot and do not want to treat people as if they were things. Rather we want to enter another person' | ||
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+ | This makes Boas different from Tylor. Tylor says that people have a psychic unity (or " | ||
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+ | As anthropologists we are open to different ways of living, but not necessarily different ways of being in the world. Many anthropologists have challenged this as a double standard. We tend to treat all differences in subjective experience as cultural. If a shaman claims to be able to communicate with spirits, it is because the shaman holds a belief about spirits which comes from the shaman' | ||
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+ | This is a problem that anyone studying religion in a community will face if they are a nonbeliever. As a student, a professor of mine had a class project in which he interviewed members of a religious community that believed that they could create world peace through deep meditation. At the end of his series of interviews, he said to one of his informants, "I think I get it now. I finally see why you believe in meditation." | ||
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+ | ## Reference | ||
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+ | Dockrill, Peter. 2016. “Consciousness Occurs in ‘Time Slices’ Lasting Only Milliseconds, | ||
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+ | Luhrmann, T. M., Howard Nusbaum, and Ronald Thisted. 2010. “The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity.” American Anthropologist 112 (1): 66–78. https:// | ||
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+ | Luhrmann, Tanya M. 2004. “Metakinesis: | ||
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+ | ------. 2012. When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. New York: Knopf. | ||
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+ | Tylor, Edward B. 1920. Primitive Culture. Vol. 1. London: John Murray. http:// |
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