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Smith的演講總是溜了人一圈到後半程開始讓人拍案叫絕。記錄一下自己比較有觸動/Smith圖窮匕見的瞬間。
p.18 “theological & imperialistic impulses"
As the anthropologist has begun to abandon a functionalist view of culture as a well-articulated, highly integrated mechanism and has slowly turned to accepting the sort of image set forth by F. E. Williams of culture as a “heap of rubbish,” a ‘‘tangle,’’ a ‘‘hotch-potch,’’ only partially organized, so we in religious studies must set about an analogous dismantling of the old theological and imperialistic impulses toward totalization, unification, and integration. The labor at achieving the goal of a polythetic classification of Judaisms, rather than a monothetic definition of early Judaism, is but a preliminary step toward this end.
p.52 on Canon （回過頭才意識到他開始為啥那樣舉例food）
I have argued that canon is best seen as one form of a basic cultural process of limitation and of overcoming that limitation through ingenuity.