148. The Anthropologists

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
• (33:12) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
• (40:29) - - Mary Douglas
• (46:24) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
• (50:00) - - What is the "good life"?
• (51:52) - - Victor and Edith Turner
• (56:20) - - Cultural relativism
• (01:00:02) - - Five-Minute Jesus
• (01:06:55) - - Good God, good anthropology