Yeah well Boaz would have been horrified by such cant.Ecurb wrote: ↑February 5th, 2023, 8:38 pmWell, I'm neither a serious anthropologist nor particularly familiar with Schmidt's work. But he did found the journal Anthropos, which is still a leading anthropological journal. He was a student of Franz Boaz and Fritz Graebner. And he was named chairman of the Fourth Inernational Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, in 1952. So (although neither you nor I qualify as serous anthropologists, especially you with your penchant for non-serious laughter) some people who actually were serious anthropologists considered Schmidt to be one, too.
Of course no benighted Catholic priest could ever add anything to the world of science or philosophy -- Copernicus, Erasmus, Mendel and Bacon included.
Were Neanderthals God's children?
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Myabe, maybe not. Both Boaz and Schmidt opposed evolutionary theories about cultural development. I imagine Boaz may have read Schmidt's books on the development of religion (they were translated, but Boaz was German and could have read the originals). Of course Schmidt's books (which I haven't read) are old-fashioned by modern standards, but his 12 volume work on the history of religion is still read, and represents the Continental equivalent to England's "Golden Bough".
Your anti-intellectual bigotry is showing, Sculptor.
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I doubt it is still read, except as a curiosity.Ecurb wrote: ↑February 6th, 2023, 10:58 amMyabe, maybe not. Both Boaz and Schmidt opposed evolutionary theories about cultural development. I imagine Boaz may have read Schmidt's books on the development of religion (they were translated, but Boaz was German and could have read the originals). Of course Schmidt's books (which I haven't read) are old-fashioned by modern standards, but his 12 volume
work on the history of religion is still read,
Your ignorance precedes you... and represents the Continental equivalent to England's "Golden Bough".
Your anti-intellectual bigotry is showing, Sculptor.
I have a Master's degree in Intellectual History. But I read much of the Golden Bough as well as many other anthropological texts as background for my degree in Ancient History and Archaeology. So the claim of anti-intellectualism is way off beam. It's value is more about understanding the historiography of anthropology but not of much use as anthropology, since its methods of enquiry were not explicit and informal.
There is simply zero basis for any claim that prehistory was originally monotheistic. All the evidence points the other way. Your claim is utterly absurd.
Such a claim can only be religious prejudice from a person that cannot see the world without the obsession of a single god.
Why would you even bring it up?
SO how much time have you spent in the formal study of anthropology?
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If you studied intellectual history, you should know that the development of ideas is fitful. The modern anthropologists who crticize The Golden Bough remind me of a pack of jackals attacking a lion. Of course Frazier was an "armchair anthropologist" and much of his ethnography was incorrect, but he was also a seminal thinker. I know less about Schmidt, but apparently he was a seminal thinker, too. You appear to have joined the pack of jackals attacking him, but since you have no idea what you are talking about, you are simply being anti-intellectual. Whether Schmidt's theories were incorrect or not, he was an important thinker (as was Frazier) and dismissing him out of hand is both bigotted and anti-intellectual.Sculptor1 wrote: ↑February 6th, 2023, 11:50 am
I doubt it is still read, except as a curiosity.Your ignorance precedes you... and represents the Continental equivalent to England's "Golden Bough".
Your anti-intellectual bigotry is showing, Sculptor.
I have a Master's degree in Intellectual History. But I read much of the Golden Bough as well as many other anthropological texts as background for my degree in Ancient History and Archaeology. So the claim of anti-intellectualism is way off beam. It's value is more about understanding the historiography of anthropology but not of much use as anthropology, since its methods of enquiry were not explicit and informal.
There is simply zero basis for any claim that prehistory was originally monotheistic. All the evidence points the other way. Your claim is utterly absurd.
Such a claim can only be religious prejudice from a person that cannot see the world without the obsession of a single god.
Why would you even bring it up?
SO how much time have you spent in the formal study of anthropology?
Since you have no idea what evidence constitutes the basis for Schmidt's theories, your claim that, "There is simply zero basis for any claim that prehistory was originally monotheistic" is shockingly anti-intellectual, as well as being conceited (implying that if you don't know the basis,there must be none).
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It's pointless bandying words with a person who has just looked all this up on Wiki.Ecurb wrote: ↑February 6th, 2023, 12:45 pmIf you studied intellectual history, you should know that the development of ideas is fitful. The modern anthropologists who crticize The Golden Bough remind me of a pack of jackals attacking a lion. Of course Frazier was an "armchair anthropologist" and much of his ethnography was incorrect, but he was also a seminal thinker. I know less about Schmidt, but apparently he was a seminal thinker, too. You appear to have joined the pack of jackals attacking him, but since you have no idea what you are talking about, you are simply being anti-intellectual. Whether Schmidt's theories were incorrect or not, he was an important thinker (as was Frazier) and dismissing him out of hand is both bigotted and anti-intellectual.Sculptor1 wrote: ↑February 6th, 2023, 11:50 am
I doubt it is still read, except as a curiosity.Your ignorance precedes you... and represents the Continental equivalent to England's "Golden Bough".
Your anti-intellectual bigotry is showing, Sculptor.
I have a Master's degree in Intellectual History. But I read much of the Golden Bough as well as many other anthropological texts as background for my degree in Ancient History and Archaeology. So the claim of anti-intellectualism is way off beam. It's value is more about understanding the historiography of anthropology but not of much use as anthropology, since its methods of enquiry were not explicit and informal.
There is simply zero basis for any claim that prehistory was originally monotheistic. All the evidence points the other way. Your claim is utterly absurd.
Such a claim can only be religious prejudice from a person that cannot see the world without the obsession of a single god.
Why would you even bring it up?
SO how much time have you spent in the formal study of anthropology?
Since you have no idea what evidence constitutes the basis for Schmidt's theories, your claim that, "There is simply zero basis for any claim that prehistory was originally monotheistic" is shockingly anti-intellectual, as well as being conceited (implying that if you don't know the basis,there must be none).
Schmidt had nothing to say about Neanderthals because his dogma insisted that God created the world in seven days in 4000 BC.
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Actually, I looked Schmidt up in Encyclopedia Britannica. But at least I'd heard of him before doing so. I suppose all those intellectual history degrees didn't mention that Bishop Usher (who dated the creation to 4004 BC) was an Anglican,not a Catholic. The Catholic church never taught that the earth was created in 4000 B.C. Your on-line correspondence course in intellectual history didn't go into that, apparently. I only hope you don't start touting your Grade Point Average, from 50 years ago. Please spare us!
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Ecurb wrote: ↑February 6th, 2023, 8:15 pmActually, I looked Schmidt up in Encyclopedia Britannica. But at least I'd heard of him before doing so. I suppose all those intellectual history degrees didn't mention that Bishop Usher (who dated the creation to 4004 BC) was an Anglican,not a Catholic. The Catholic church never taught that the earth was created in 4000 B.C. Your on-line correspondence course in intellectual history didn't go into that, apparently. I only hope you don't start touting your Grade Point Average, from 50 years ago. Please spare us!
Oh dear Enc Brit is often worse that Wiki these days.
My Masters was at the best university in the UK, outside Oxbridge for such a course; it was 10 years ago, and there was so little Intellectual content in the childish myths of obscure German theologians that no one bothered to mention Schmidt.
So you offered Schmidt as being able to contribute to this discussion.
Please let the thread know what were his views on the religious beliefs of Neanderthals and what was his evidence for those views
If you can't do that then please cease and desist.
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I can imagine Sculptor's Intellectual History Course:
Professor: Now we turn to an influential philosopher in the High Middle Ages, Thomas Acquinas.
Sculptor: Acquinas!? He believed the Earth was 5000 years old! His idiotic philosophy is risible. I've seldom read anything so hilarious!
Professor: This is an intellectual history course, and he was an important intellectual.
Scultpor: That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! Bring on the sky daddy!
Professor: If we give you a Masters Degree in intellectual history, will you promise never to darken the doors of this University again?
Scultpor: It's a deal.
The truth about Scultor's degree comes out!
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