GK
INDIAN CULTURE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
a belief that social position is determined by age
|
|
|
a belief that animals and natural forces have spirits
|
|
|
a custom that marks a young person passing into adulthood
|
|
|
None of the above
|
Detailed explanation-1: -animism, belief in innumerable spiritual beings concerned with human affairs and capable of helping or harming human interests. Animistic beliefs were first competently surveyed by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor in his work Primitive Culture (1871), to which is owed the continued currency of the term.
Detailed explanation-2: -Animism (from Latin: anima meaning ‘breath, spirit, life’) is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things-animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words, as animated and alive.
Detailed explanation-3: -Animism is a religious and ontological perspective common to many indigenous cultures across the globe. According to an oft-quoted definition from the Victorian anthropologist E. B. Tylor, animists believe in the “animation of all nature”, and are characterized as having “a sense of spiritual beings…