George Kerlin Park
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Former Professor of Anthropology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's. Author of The Idea of Social Structure, An Afterpiece to Peasantry, and others.
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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.β¦
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