Anthropological perspective and its application in myths and ritual
Keywords:
Ernest Cassirer, Myths, Rituals, ViewpointsAbstract
One of the cases that, according to some philosophical schools, is a representation, sometimes in stages It is introduced from human life, was "myth"; According to Ernst Cassirer, Edra Kaat and the world formed in mythology have contents and features that understand and It is not so easy to accept them with today's theoretical and rational knowledge standards; so, These principles should be considered in the framework of the irrational cognitive system of myths checked. Based on this, the main question of this research is formed like this what is the Place of myths and rituals in Historical and Anthropological context? And its purpose is to take a step towards providing a model efficient for the purpose of reading, analyzing and explaining thematic and form (visual), figures. Next, Mythology is different in ancient civilizations, while people's views on myths and rituals are different in historical periods. In this research we used descriptive- analytical method and the data was collected by library method in addition Field data has been obtained qualitatively through interviews and observation, finally as a result, most important distinctions of the content and characteristics of mythical and sometimes rational in comparison to knowledge and rational, in the forms of separation and the unity of phenomena and affairs, the qualitative orientation of phenomena, the concept of causality, the mediators of perception (space, time, number) and the visualization of phenomena and affairs, was identified.
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