A cognitive account of manipulative sympathetic magic
Frazer’s theory of sympathetic magic has been extremely influential in both anthropology and comparative religion, yet the manipulative aspect has not been adequately theorized. In this paper, I formalize sympathetic magical action and offer a naturalistic explanation of manipulative sympathetic mag...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Routledge
2022
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Religion, brain & behavior
Année: 2022, Volume: 12, Numéro: 3, Pages: 254-270 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Spatial Autocorrelation
B Evolutionary Psychology B causal cognition B Sympathetic Magic |
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| Résumé: | Frazer’s theory of sympathetic magic has been extremely influential in both anthropology and comparative religion, yet the manipulative aspect has not been adequately theorized. In this paper, I formalize sympathetic magical action and offer a naturalistic explanation of manipulative sympathetic magic by attributing it to a combination of environmental regularities (i.e., things that are similar and/or physically proximate tend to co-vary) and human causal cognition (i.e., the tendency to mistake correlation as causation), and supply ample ethnographic and historical evidence for my arguments. In doing so I also specify the variables involved and re-classify sympathetic magic into four distinct types for analytic convenience. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-5981 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion, brain & behavior
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/2153599X.2021.2006294 |