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    Magic, religion, science, and the scope of rationality

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    Magic, religion, science, and the scope of rationality

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    Magic, science, religion, and the scope of rationality STANLEY JEYARAIA TAMBIAH, Harvard Univer, if Cie eli pn se ee i a ay Sy ome tes) weneor tas tesla oF Contents st of plates Forerod by Aled Harris ‘cknotedemente 1 Masi, cence nd efson in Western thought: antropoogy* 2 Amhroplony’s intel guy cote) 4 Sir Edward Tylor verte Bronsaw Malinowski magic alse ‘lence or meaning pefomance 4 Matinowais demarcation and his expston ofthe magia! 5 Multiple onesngs flit the debate initiated by Livy Beal 6 Rationality, relavs, the teslation and commensraity 7 Modern sence and its etesions ‘Bitoraphy 2 6 ‘en hs wine be oa 22 eel no) ie To aia hese sos tt ie 14 Phtoph fh eminent Spach cna Sang Rami (Gitar his able wth scene qupen, enn aetna a 34 Ai among bai iia Norte Tne, 33 The Baldi abot of Bang vr spdaing esr water «oi dere nn al ae ed 1. Te mae ite at Wook 60 fn abort the "tp ge in yt rm he gens «6 Asotin ong sha rang ote «47 Men drewed aa an bho ee pvoring het ‘ace oles at 11 Redon tl enn hyog otra Hara 152 Thecaliborston fy beneir and msc ets and ‘eect athe enone te Avedon e212 31,34 5 $1 a 52 fom he france A Comey Lisa of Mei hath for Pe 2 isha oie ra shy snsoranoen Srnipce paves Foreword ‘Sine Levis Hey Morpa's a, anthropology hs become citable aan international enters wth tein anthropos on every coninen, ‘parspunte n't genralcngdinspline that bot includes and transcends Iscalconcere Profesor Tanah educated Ceylon andthe United States, {pit in Crylon and England blorecomingtothe Unte State, where eis ‘ow on the faculty of Harvard Univesity, Hs previous research based ot Teldworkin southeast Asi, has attracted widespread stleton and over te ‘as tmety-fie years seemed hn a enviable isto honors and awards ‘Fhe ghy Lewis ery Monga Latte were delivered by Profesor Tamia ‘on Match 13, 15,20 an 7. ‘An ote ech of Proesor Tabla’ argument and conclusion could not do tet the ule clanty and lepnce of i presettion eet i ‘posit touch on only afew general pant i expaedwrion is {ovis Henry Morgan Lettres Profesor Tamtiah examines Several conep that ave sn espe importantin mick antopoogeal work. "Mag" coca” "reigon” and "atonaty” are obviously not te exe ‘concern of anthropaogy th history of thinking aboot them cab be tact ery far back, Ia ts book they are examined int broadly conse Framework, so constrict that not ont the we ft ems oer the pas hundred years o soi considered thy ae alo pcs inthe context of work ‘her dpe. Teisapparent on eing hee tures in relation to Professor Tabi’ cher peblcatony, that more then twenty year of revarch and eal thou He hind them, The dacoeon per beyond anthropology’ ours, king cle tat anthropology as major ontbatons to tier rearing dacesone and debates that have eerlsed pilsophes, Usonans and thes ver theyre This work, then, crn be red ar ‘Sontbtion othe history of des and cia contestuaising of what hae been writen, in terme of Profesor Tambal's owa thereat scene "Ths way of procelig permits the autor to consider what soch aor ‘ontbatrs tour thinking a Tyo, Mabnowa nd Wigensti have ssi, Bu ti also necessary, in is Wiew to oe both careful evaluation of Set of eonctsions, especially a developed in the fal ehapers, wll us ‘loubtsly simulate controversy Iti jot ae seri, and perhaps more ‘portant that Profesor Tanah theory maker poableo move one togeter with ater an now make us fk conleone i dealing With ered readers wil doch o thnk about on every page, aod will undoubtedly sppresiate the simlatig mpest Profor Tabla’ leurs Nes Hares he Lewis Henry Morgan Letres Acknowledgments 1 thank th University of Rochas, and in particule Professors Aled and {Grace Har, for inwting me to give the Lens Henry Morgan Late in fq They, togtier withthe faculty andthe graduate Hen a the Departmen of Anthropology, were Warm, conserte, apd stimulating Fos, aT Rope thal the reve text of the etre wl pleas hen Ths are abo due (othe ollowing: to Dan Rosenberg for rennet text Indra form an fering comment for improvement to Ooliey Ligand Milton Singer forth valuable and encouraging comments inthe ae of| Feadrsto Richard) Walle Ein. Wolfe and Dela. Zan of he Francs AA'Countway Libary of Metisne, Harvard Medical Schoo, for tht {nformed and praioustlp in eboosing many sation orinclsoninthe book tery Laxbforthe wonderulphotographsf people Tobriand Tans; and to Deborah Tooke fo he ptr of an Aka spat ps Tam very mich athe debe of Kenneth Lain Kene or periting me 0 nate lavish ae ofthe tanto prepared by him and James Hs ened Taig Wiest, Remarks on rae Philsiphicaldnlpolgy. Magic, science and religion in Western thought: anthropology’s intellectual legacy ‘Ae Vitrian twat natural in 187, for Lewis Henry Morgan to give the following subi to Anion Secety "Researches i the Ines of aman proses fom savagery, through barbarism to evlzaton "Ife that gully satura forme i 1964, over a cena Tae, o want to afin this ‘Hhteret of Morgats: "The History of the aman ras one insure, ne inerperenceand one mpromes,” ot ying as edd onthe adder of ropes and evolution a the hey to that sory, but By afirng the tiles ia experince apd the generality of existential problems that onstutethe pyehic unity of mankind I do honour to Morgan thr. Ld0 fovbypiltiog myvalf guna that great evolutonary scheme that be helped aust the major paradigm of his ime ‘My presentations re om te sap of social anthrpolgit who hs lua ripons and socal phenomena i he ed particle South sh Southeast Asa and whoa he same tie sintered in the intelectual ‘rgsin Wester howe ofthe cones of lision, map apd sence, and ‘he bearing tha ht fastony nay have on the ahd aplation a neal stalycl categories in comparative states, ‘Mati, Sten and Rfiors the eof famous longest pubbshe by Broa’ Malinowsl in 19257 These thre categories or domains, tht marcato, difleretation and overlap, ave Den the bj of aprout joboicaldslopue songs suber efscholars who are ivanibl inde f any genalogy of anthopolgeal theote, My” peeaogy a8 well Ainray bgine with te Bath Viconans Uke Sir Edward Tylor and Sie James Fraser, pss onto the Beach mde Sacelogiqe school of rae DDurihi and Maret Maus and thr who irate with them sh | Lcen Lesy- Bro and Maurice Lenhart then rtares to Bain to Fanstionalts principal Bronisaw Malina and RadlieBrowa, aad nly leas to moder EE EvasePaichata Robin Heton, Soba Bele, Etat Gellar aad many thes, “This ively dlogue tat hs extended for a east even decades, snc in fact Moran's ine, i ilresing fortwo feaons. Fs, 1 accepted he 2 Ma, ec, eon, nd the peo nay Viral all soseues. and therefore as grcelly wel analyal eategoris Forcomparatve stay. Secondly, the fog dialogue consisted of poles ‘eachange which he theo ook diferent poon rearing te tree ‘lorie thir aubtantive contents, cee boundason thie deveopnental ‘tapes and the quality of th atonal” they potaped dee the debate ‘nena od the thors to ak whether the menaliies apd moder of thought of men and women everywhere wee the same or dileren. If he ‘ame, wht were tei corimon fattest where were folate ten there mere iver featares, how did ne enplan clr dive? tthe Imentaies were diferent, wee the Gifeenees dec, quota and ination. Tylor’ scheme of progesive development abe employed the notion that sinceearyorpimitvemanwascoserto "ature," histecboaogy ‘wells hiscaluralceations were sro covert the ara ate Thi stone tools are merely modifleauons of satura thew. Silty, priive lam ‘tape developed by imitating sound in naturel show dence hie ‘egomigs But as cllure and lecnology vanced mankind wa Jest onstainedy nar eitationsandamectonrand than theyGevelpedn {more dives, rer aod ore creative sd onvestiona one, Tie ‘sh ths, Tylor, as we shall ee, adopted his same dstanig ogc fom "atrel to metaphor! or conventional to poste the development of ‘elgion fom alwer natural toa higher “reves 0 mag andthe oct sence “olor interestingly never tempted in Prine Cul ody compare ad contrat mage with regan (houah he compared mage mth senso tm inet a He merely separated in space magi rom religion ~ is

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