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If I Were a Horse
Ever since Darwin there have been people who see evolution as essentially progressive — they explain the appearance of all traits and behaviors as adaptive. The classic critique of this view came from...
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RR Marett’s “Pre-Animistic Religion”
Over Spring Break, I went diving in the Caribbean dove into the often neglected work of Robert Ranulph Marett (1866-1943), yet another classicist (like James George Frazer) who ditched literature for...
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Lucien Lévy-Bruhl: Animist “Primitives”
At the conclusion of my post on RR Marett, I noted that for all his keen insights into the expansively causal and cosmological nature of animist worldviews, his otherwise brilliant analysis was marred...
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