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Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional)

Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional)

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Short notes

Anthropological approaches to the study of religion (evolutionary, psychological and functional)

Definition

Refers to the practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties within a single conversation or discourse.

Thinkers

  • A.R. Radcliffe-Brown — structural-functionalism: institutions function like organs to maintain social structure.
  • E.B. Tylor — culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom; unilinear evolution and survivals.