FlashcardsMagic vs. Reason in Anthropology Flashcards
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This 23-card set covers the anthropological debate between magic and reason, including foundational theorists like Boas, Tylor, and Frazer, and contemporary scholars like Latour and Moeran. Cards explore social evolutionism, magical capitalism, conceptual dichotomy, and how the discipline has reconsidered the rationality divide. Designed for college-level anthropology students studying cultural theory and the history of the discipline.
Terms in This Set
- Magic vs Reason Core Idea
- Problematization of Magic vs Reason
- Implication of Magic vs Reason
- Magic vs Reason in Western Identity
- Re-evaluation of Rationality- How do scholars like Evans-Pritchard and Boas re-evaluate rationality?
- Stage Magicians- How do stage magicians relate to the magic/reason debate?
- Unreason and the Other- What is Geertz’s "merchants of strange" concept?
- Magical Capitalism
- Brian Moeran’s "Magical Capitalism"
- Bruno Latour’s "We Have Never Been Modern"
- Franz Boas’s "Religion of the Kwakiutl Indians"
- Magic + Reason debateWhy is magic a focus in anthropology?
- Early Anthropological Views on Magic- How did Tylor and Frazer view magic?
- Social Evolutionism
- Magic as Irrational- How did Enlightenment ideals frame magic?
- Magic as Proto-Science- How does Tylor reconcile magic and science?
- Stage Magic and Anthropology- How does stage magic relate to anthropology?
- Critique of Magic/Reason Divide- How do Latour, Moeran, and Boas critique the magic/reason divide?
- Conceptual Dichotomy
- Analogical Reasoning
- Disenchantment
- Magical Capitalism
- Social Evolutionism
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