Claude Levi-Strauss argued that this type of thinking allowed people to feel a sense of control over their environment, resulting in actual control.
Claude Levi-Strauss argued that this type of thinking allowed people to feel a sense of control over their environment, resulting in actual control. In The Golden Bough, James Frazer developed a Law of Contagion and a Law of Similarity to define examples of this process, both of which could allow for action at a distance and could be termed "sympathetic" forms of this. E.E. Evans-Pritchard associated this process with witchcraft and oracles among the Zande people. FTP what is this type of non-rational belief differentiated from religion in anthropology and often practiced by witches?
Claude Levi-Strauss argued that this type of thinking allowed people to feel a sense of control over their environment, resulting in actual control.
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