A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.
タグ: symbols, symbolism, society, religion, culture

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I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things.
タグ: new, remember, soul, people
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.
タグ: hard, africa, understand, time
The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.
タグ: never, father, brother, mother
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
タグ: feminism, anthropology, impact, think
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
タグ: find, how, criticism, research
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