Animism Is a Modern Construct

In the early two thousands was there an onslaught of indi rock bands, all named after animals. In other words, to ized people as animist requires a pre existing world view in which everything is assumed to be inanimate. And therefore, for a person to think that the world is animate must require some abstract belief system laid over the top of an inherently inanimate world. As nerit bird i says, the entire way we relate to animism in the modern world is based on the insistence that the material world as inanimate entities is normative and mature.

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