William Robertson Smith
Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Text -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Life of William Robertson Smith -- Chapter 2 - Smith's Travels and Ethnographies -- Chapter 3 - A Journey in the Hijaz -- Chapter 4 - Anthropology, Religion, and Myth -- Chapter 5 - Myth, Its Meaning and S...
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Sprache: | eng |
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New York ; Oxford
Berghahn
2021
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Schriftenreihe: | Anthropology's ancestors
volume 2 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Text -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - The Life of William Robertson Smith -- Chapter 2 - Smith's Travels and Ethnographies -- Chapter 3 - A Journey in the Hijaz -- Chapter 4 - Anthropology, Religion, and Myth -- Chapter 5 - Myth, Its Meaning and Some of Its Explanations -- Chapter 6 - Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Myth -- Chapter 7 - Myth and Ritual School -- Chapter 8 - Methodology and Literary Criticism -- Chapter 9 - Sociological Aspects of Old Testament Religion -- Conclusion -- Selected Works by William Robertson Smith -- References -- Index "William Robertson Smith's influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about "Totem" and "Taboo" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This biography places a special emphasis on the notes and observations from his travels to Arabia, as well as on his influence on the representatives of the "Myth and Ritual School." With his discussion of myth and ritual, Smith influenced generations of scholars, and his insistence on the connection between the people, their God, and the land they inhabited inspired many of the concepts later developed by Émile Durkheim"-- |
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Beschreibung: | xii, 139 Seiten Illustrationen |
ISBN: | 9781800731585 978-1-80073-158-5 9781800731578 978-1-80073-157-8 |