RT Article
T1 Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal
JF Method & theory in the study of religion
VO 31
IS 1
SP 3
OP 13
A1 Frankenberry, Nancy 1947-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1684993113
AB This article focuses on Jonathan Z. Smith's 1978 essay, "Map is Not Territory," in terms of its definition of religion, allegiance to anthropology and history, and avoidance of relativism. Updated to the author's situation forty years later, it articulates the relation between map and territory as one of asymmetrical dependence governed by the rule that the concrete includes the abstract and exceeds it in value. Reading Smith's essay in light of Donald Davidson's "On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme" provides a philosophical argument against radical relativism. Two brief aperçu about Smith frame this account.
K1 Donald Davidson
K1 Hans Penner
K1 Jonathan Z. Smith
K1 definition of religion
K1 radical empiricism
K1 Relativism
K1 scheme-content distinction
DO 10.1163/15700682-12341458