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religion could be "functional" if all its religious dimensions were denied, as they had been by agnostic anthropologists (1966:167). |
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25. Devisch cites Turner (1975), Young (1977), and Werbner (1973). |
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26. Ahern (1981) suggests distinguishing interpersonal divination (reading mechanisms for their encoded messages from suprahuman powers) and the calculation of causal connections from impersonal extant factors (as in geomancy). |
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27. See also an excellent discussion by "G.K.P.," which recommends similar categories (Encyclopedia Britannica 1974:916-20). |
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28. Most "comparative" research in the social sciences remains focused on how "they" respond to our modes of thinking and behaving, although cross-cultural psychology is beginning to question this tradition, as illustrated by Lloyd and Gay's Universals of Human Thought: Some African Evidence (1981). |
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