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Originally Posted by woot
That's seems like a pretty good summary. This is somewhat of a hot topic in certain circles, with many including Stephen J Gould thinking that science and religion are "non-overlapping magisteria" so science should stay away from it. I'm somewhere in the middle on the issue, but this is the domain of cultural anthropology, so it isn't my field. It does seem true that anthropology as a whole and religion are often in competition to explain the same things, and the paper does a good job with that topic.
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even in the social science community cultural anthropology is considered a joke. don't take that stuff too seriously.