148. The Anthropologists

Season 14 Episode 1

Welcome to season XIV of Undeceptions!

Anthropology has a reputation for being the most “godless” of all the sciences.

The so-called Father of Anthropology, Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, abandoned his faith as an anthropologist, declaring religion was “animalistic”.

But religion hasn’t gone away - and many anthropologists are now realising there might be something to belief after all …

(00:00) - - Coffee and anthropology
(09:08) - - What is anthropology?
(14:25) - - Edward Tylor, the 'Father of Anthropology'
(19:28) - - Why is anthropology so godless?
(21:25) - - James Frazer
(33:12) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
(40:29) - - Mary Douglas
(46:24) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
(50:00) - - What is the "good life"?
(51:52) - - Victor and Edith Turner
(56:20) - - Cultural relativism
(01:00:02) - - Five-Minute Jesus
(01:06:55) - - Good God, good anthropology

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