Animism Is a Mistake About the Nature of the World

The animist perspective is so widely held and inherent to most indigenous peoples that they often do not even have a word in their languages that corresponds to ani sm or even religion. The term is an anthropological construct, and it was constructed rather recently. It came into common parlance through the founder of cultural anthropology himself, edward tyler,. Speaking of inherent bias, here's what tyler said about animism. He says, animism is a mistake about the nature of the world in which people believe in souls or spirits. And you're wrong and we're right. Yes? So that's an audacity that i would not venture to have towards my ancestors. Managed to