animism

Even though the Lao People's Democratic Republic is by constitution secular and more than 30 per cent of its population comprises "animists" (Steering Committee 2006, p.

For Tylor, however, animists attributed souls not just to animate beings but to things moderns would consider inanimate and lifeless--like stones, heavenly bodies, and manufactured objects--and this idea too he ascribed to a belief that such things possessed life (Tylor 1958:II:61).

Their topics include the tinted lens of Ancient Society: classical history and the American experience in the ethnology of Lewis Henry Morgan, the feast and commensal politics: ancient Greek prefiguration of anthropological concerns, arboreal animists: the (ab)use of Roman sacred trees in early anthropology, the Magna Graecia of Ernesto de Martino: studying ancient and contemporary evil eye, and comparativism then and now.

So they started to provoke the animists against the Muslims in the south, but their efforts ended in failure.

We were animists, long before the Christian friars came to our soil.

The Protestants will throw out the Catholics, and then the Baptists against the Evangelists, and finally the animists? It is time we regain control and stop ourselves from plunging into an abyss." Thousands of Muslims left Bangui in a massive convoy Friday that was jeered by crowds of Christians.

He examines the relationship between biology (biologists) and animism (animists, who tend to be indigenous peoples, and those who study them, like social anthropologists) at what he calls "the human scale." That is to say, excluding impossibly small or large concepts (DNA or ecosystems).

The "Sacred Seven," each member being a legendary "Gifted One" who possesses an extraordinary power, in turn, must put aside their combative history and personal involvements to battle an enemy from the past - the Perliox and their magical Animists. If they fail, the world will change forever.

Houphouet-Boigny wanted the lake to be blessed by animists and filled with massive crocodiles as the animals were considered almost sacred by his ethnic group - the Baoule.

Animists could find the Bhutanese concept of God, Konchhoksum, in the monastery.

The referendum is the final phase of a 2005 peace agreement that ended two decades of war between the Arab-majority north, and the south made up mostly of Christians and animists.