Relocating Syncretism in Social Science Discourse

Abstract

Syncretism is considered a pejorative term in some quarters today; cer-tainly it acquired deprecatory overtones in the past, and these negative associations have caused anthropologists to doubt whether the term can or should be used in current writing. The first issue to consider is which histories and which regional ethnographic traditions, if any, anthropologists should feel themselves governed by.

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