Totemism, Metaphor and Tradition: Incorporating Cultural Traditions into Evolutionary Psychology Explanations of Religion

Abstract. Totemism, a topic that fascinated and then was summarily dismissed by anthropologists, has been resurrected by evolutionary psychologists’ recent attempts to explain religion. New approaches to religion are all based on the assumption that religious behavior is the result of evolved psycho...

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Authors: Palmer, Craig T. (Author) ; Steadman, Lyle B. (Author) ; Cassidy, Chris (Author) ; Coe, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2008
In: Zygon
Year: 2008, Volume: 43, Issue: 3, Pages: 719-735
Further subjects:B Tradition
B Totemism
B Religion
B Evolutionary Psychology
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