Being Changed by Cross-Cultural Encounters
Anthropologists of recent generations have always expressed enormous sympathy with ''non-rational'' modes of thought, with the ''supernatural'' experiences of people around the world. What they have rarely in their scholarly writing admitted to doing is giving any credence to the ''irrational'' themselves -- though such beliefs have long been common among those who have lived and worked for exten...
Anthropologists of recent generations have always expressed enormous sympathy with ''non-rational'' modes of thought, with the ''supernatural'' experiences of people around the world. What they have rarely in their scholarly writing admitted to doing is giving any credence to the ''irrational'' themselves -- though such beliefs have long been common among those who have lived and worked for exten...