animism

Scope Note

Conception of the soul; number of souls; location in the body; characteristics (e.g., shape, visibility, separability); relation of the soul to the body, to the name, to the breath, to dreams, to shadows and reflections, and to life and death; notions of the temporary departure of the soul from the body; attribution of souls to animate and inanimate objects; etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 770 religious beliefs

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• 551 personal names
• 577 ethics
• 753 theory of disease
• 761 life and death
• 778 sacred objects and places
• 787 revelation and divination
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• 825 ethnozoology
• 827 ethnophysiology
• 828 ethnopsychology