148. The Anthropologists

Undeceptions with John Dickson

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
• (34:57) - - E.E. Evans Pritchard
• (42:14) - - Mary Douglas
• (49:17) - - How Christine became a Christian anthropologist
• (52:53) - - What is the "good life"?
• (54:45) - - Victor and Edith Turner
• (59:13) - - Cultural relativism
• (01:02:55) - - Five-Minute Jesus
• (01:09:48) - - Good God, good anthropology