Key Concepts Of Animism
2.1 Overview of key concepts
Culture defined
Culture is generally considered to be a popular life manner. This could be referred to as a kind good knowledge, passed on from one generation to the next, so as to benefit all of the experience of previous generations. It is transmitted from parents to children. The culture can be transmitted to children in many ways: through weddings, ceremonies or teaching of morals and ways of doing things such as agriculture, hunting, fishing, etc.
The expression of culture was defined differently by different people. Similarly, M.F. Shaibu and T.A. Puke (147) have defined culture as the entire state of a people of life, adding that culture is the full range of knowledge, beliefs, customs, traditions and …show more content…
In some cases the animist prospects are pantheistic. In other words, it includes the idea of God and spirits, however, Pantheism is not a feature of animism.
Animism was not purely theoretical for Tylor, but something constructed from reports of travellers, missionaries and ethnographers. When describing the soul (or mind) of "primitives" as an insignificant human image in the form of vapour or shadow (429), Tylor derived support using languages that used the same word for "spirit" and "ghosts", "shadow", "heart" or "breath" and illustrates through modern day examples of out-of-body and near-death experiences, and dreams in which human figures appeared.
Animism was not a purely theoretical construct for Tylor, but something he built up from the reports of travellers, missionaries, and amateur ethnographers. When he described the soul (or spirit) of the ‘primitive’ as ‘a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow’ ( 429), he drew support from languages in which the same word is used for ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ and ‘ghost’, ‘shadow’, ‘heart’, or ‘breath’, and brought his point home by citing examples of what today would be called out-of-body and near-death experiences, apparitions, and visions, trances, and dreams in which human figures
Culture defined
Culture is generally considered to be a popular life manner. This could be referred to as a kind good knowledge, passed on from one generation to the next, so as to benefit all of the experience of previous generations. It is transmitted from parents to children. The culture can be transmitted to children in many ways: through weddings, ceremonies or teaching of morals and ways of doing things such as agriculture, hunting, fishing, etc.
The expression of culture was defined differently by different people. Similarly, M.F. Shaibu and T.A. Puke (147) have defined culture as the entire state of a people of life, adding that culture is the full range of knowledge, beliefs, customs, traditions and …show more content…
In some cases the animist prospects are pantheistic. In other words, it includes the idea of God and spirits, however, Pantheism is not a feature of animism.
Animism was not purely theoretical for Tylor, but something constructed from reports of travellers, missionaries and ethnographers. When describing the soul (or mind) of "primitives" as an insignificant human image in the form of vapour or shadow (429), Tylor derived support using languages that used the same word for "spirit" and "ghosts", "shadow", "heart" or "breath" and illustrates through modern day examples of out-of-body and near-death experiences, and dreams in which human figures appeared.
Animism was not a purely theoretical construct for Tylor, but something he built up from the reports of travellers, missionaries, and amateur ethnographers. When he described the soul (or spirit) of the ‘primitive’ as ‘a thin unsubstantial human image, in its nature a sort of vapour, film, or shadow’ ( 429), he drew support from languages in which the same word is used for ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’ and ‘ghost’, ‘shadow’, ‘heart’, or ‘breath’, and brought his point home by citing examples of what today would be called out-of-body and near-death experiences, apparitions, and visions, trances, and dreams in which human figures