mis tugunesid ratsionaalsele mõtlemisele Teooria maagia tähendusest tugevalt seotud Frazeriga leidis, et on olemas 3 peamist mõtteviisi: maagiline, religioosne, teaduslik James George Frazer (1854-1941): Sotlane, kuid veetis enamus elust Cambridge ülikoolis, erudiit Maagiat ja religiooni käsitlevad teosed, entsüklopeediate sissekanded Folklore in the Old Testament (1918), Toteism and Exogamy (1910), The Golden Branch Mõjutatud Tylorist 19. saj peamine evolutsiooniteoreetik huvitusid religiooni päritolust ning uskusid, et see tukeneb ratsionaalsetest järeldustest ümbritseva maailma kohta ,,Kuldne oks" kogumik maagia- ja religiooni-alastest teadmistest, vaatleb müüdi, religiooni jms ajalugu üle kogu maailma; eesmãrgiks mustrite, universaalsete joonte leidmine 3-astmeline kultuurievolutsiooniline mudel: 1
" The former calls for a voluntary or forced acquisition of the culture of the dominant group, a kind of cultural modification from one group of people to another, or more specifically, a process of cultural adaptation by the subordinate people toward the dominant people's culture within the context of social advancement in American society at that time. The latter indicates the disappearance of group identity through nondifferential association and exogamy, which requires a mutual effort of both dominant and ethnic groups. Cooper was keenly aware that, to his contemporaries, that was something to be wished for but entirely nonfeasible. His perception of the encounters between the European colonizers and their colonized natives convinced him that the acculturation occurring during the process of the Western overseas expansion was basically a confrontation between two
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