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“religious notionsconstitute domains where nonreferential usage is predominant, for obvious reasons, and where the connection betweenconcepts and word meanings is particularly complex,”
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“people not onlynotice feature correlations, but they can deduce reasons for them based on their knowledge of the way the world works" (Medin and Wattenmaker 1987, 36).”
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“Saying that a certain religious discourse is based on this or that "metaphor'' dispenses the anthropologist from a detailed description of the intellectual processes involved.”
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“Cultural transmission is a complex affair. From thiscomplexity, however, anthropology seems to have drawn the wrong conclusion: namely, that cultural transmission need not be described in a precise way,”
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“The distinctions mentioned above ("everyday" or "rational" versus "religious" or "symbolic") are usually expressed invery abstract terms in anthropological theories. They are construed as corresponding to "styles of reasoning," "modes ofthought," or "intellectual orientations.”
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Cristian Prado Ballester’s 2025 Year in Books
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