Undeceptions with John Dickson

The Anthropologists

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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
  • (34:35) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
  • (41:52) - - Mary Douglas
  • (49:03) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
  • (52:39) - - What is the "good life"?
  • (54:31) - - Victor and Edith Turner
  • (58:59) - - Cultural relativism
  • (01:02:41) - - Five-Minute Jesus
  • (01:09:34) - - Good God, good anthropology
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