EP 16: The Golden Bough
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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Leech's Critique of the Golden Bow
Anthropology is a science that must be left to the professionals who employ scientific reasoning and col objectivity. Leech's tell as we say in the game of poker. He was not an accurate scholar or an original thinker. Politicians can argue in this fashion, but not professional scholars. The act of creating scientific theories and objective descriptions of myth and ritual is often a way of deeply misinterpreting and misunderstanding them. A comparative study, such as fraser's golden bow, like joseph campbell's own body of work, is comparable to a data base,. As such, it becomes a legitimate tool of research.
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