The Encyclopaedia of Tribal Religions, in twelve volumes, is a glimpse into the enormous literature built up by anthropologists on the subject of religion, right from the earliest stage of the discipline to the present times. The father of social anthropology, Edward B. Tylor, had given the earliest definition of religion as 'a belief in supernatural beings'. Also, the first stage in human religion was described by him as Animism. From an early evolutionary ...
Anthropology is a human science and is primarily concerned with the basic issues of life and living and of ethics and human behavior. It is vitally associated with global issues of human interest like inequality, environment, ethinicity, conflict, political boundries, gender issues, power hierarchies etc. The past few decades have emerged as the critical period of anthropological thought involving introspectionand a great deal of reflexivity. The International ...
