Anyone have a decent grasp on animism? I'm curious whether the animist *worldview* can be analyzed apart from its *worship practices.*
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I want to draw a clean line between the two. I also want to say that "religion" resides in the worship practices, not in the beliefs.
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But for all I know, that's folly. Also the intertubes have too much info for me to sift through. Help?
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@KevinSimler two things that come to mind are this http://rewild.com/anthropik/vault/sorenson-preconquest/and … Everett's Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@KevinSimler re: the piraha, they have a very positivist epistemology, but interact with spirits and even trade names with them2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@KevinSimler I think animism is inherent & ineradicable in our psyches - just have to look for it (computers have spirits and intention)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing yes, this I believe too. But I want to separate that from worship/costly signaling/social cohesion. Is that dangerous?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing A related question: Did farmer gods evolve (culturally) out of animistic spirit-thinking?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@KevinSimler it's plausible - Vietnam and Thailand-style Buddhism still seems pretty animist, middle-class western-educated people with...
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@KevinSimler well-tended little ancestor shrines that get daily attention0 replies 0 retweets 2 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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