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From: Mary Beaudry <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: January 19, 2001 3:05:06 PM GMT
Subject: Re: SHA 02 Session Call for Papers - Religion, Ritual, & Magic
John,
Not an off-list response.
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Cheers,
Mary B.
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Mary-
Not an off-list reply!
I agree completely. I've been attracted to recent writing on the politics
of religious synthesis by some European anthropologists and their recasting
of syncretism, the synthesis of various religious traditions, as a force for
cultural survival and social resistance (e.g., Stewart & Shaw, eds. 1994)
These ideas resonant with my research on African-influenced burial practices
in antebellum Philadelphia.
It is clear that spiritual life in the past, as now, was highly complex and
individual. Archaeology provides a way of approaching these kind of
cultural phenomena that were obvious, taken for granted, or even held as
secret, by their practitioners in the past.
Potentially good stuff!
John
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