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The first edition of the reader received deservedly warm reviews, and the second edi- tion, in my opinion, is a decided improvement over the first. I consider it to be a very useful pedagogical tool. It might have been better had there been a chapter devoted to contemporary approaches to religion as a definitional problem. The reader might also have profited from something in the way of a formal discus- sion of the logic of scientific explanation.
But how is the student to evaluate such claims? What ground rules might he follow? A chapter dealing specifically with this problem might have been a most useful addition. Anthropologists, it is to be hoped, will become increasingly self-con- scious about the logical adequacy of their claims at explanation-and perhaps nowhere else in anthropology is there a more pressing need for such a self-consciousness than in the study of religion.
Ethnos and Demos: Soaiologische Beitrdge aur Volkstheorie. DM Its intentions are, in the main, twofold: first, to demystify the German concept of Volk and to substitute for this many-headed conceptual Hydra the precise terminology of the sociologist; second, to advance beyond the purely natural scientific description of minority groups in the direction of a more general theory that yet would not do violence to the characteristics of particular cases. The presentation of the ma- terial falls into two main parts: the first part attempts a sociology of ethnic forms; the second contains empirical studies.
In the first part, the author discusses the polarity of ethnos and demos, which carries the main burden of his argument; his distinction between primary and secondary minorities; his views of American research into minority problems; and his distinction between nation-state and the state of nationalities. In the second part, Francis presents the fruits of his firsthand investigations among German-speaking Mennonites of Canada and Spanish-speaking cultivators of northern New Mexico.
Completing the volume are studies of two leading figures of the Catholic enlightenment, the Bohemian priest Bernard Bokano and the New Mexican priest Antonio Jos6 Mar- tinez , both of whom came into opposition with the ecclesiastical hierarchy without, however, severing their connections with the Church.
Francis contrasts ethnos with demos. Ethnos is a universal sociological category that embraces every overarching society Gesamtgesellschajt that endures over time, is characterized by a common cultural heritage, and groups numerous kinship units into an overall, historically differentiated entity p. The constituent kin bonds may be fictive or actual.
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