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Animism: Religion, "New animism" definitions & Other usage

Animism (from Latin: anima, meaning 'breath', 'spirit', or 'life') is the worldview or perception that various types of natural phenomena, including non-human organisms and often even landforms and inanimate objects, possess distinct spiritual essences, souls, or personhood. Animism assumes a wide view about which entities may be considered animate, thus…

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Animism topic overview

The analysis highlights Religion, "New animism" definitions and Other usage as prominent areas in the source structure around Animism.

Related topics
256
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
277
Extracted relationships
363
Concept neighborhoods
48
Bridge connections
277

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 147 topics
Religion · 27 topics
Other usage · 26 topics
"New animism" definitions · 24 topics
"Old animism" definitions · 18 topics
Animist life · 10 topics
Etymology · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Etymology

"Old animism" definitions

"New animism" definitions

Religion

Animist life

Other usage

Sources

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Animism connects Entity context

The extracted context around Animism shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Animism → Adler, Alfred Irving, America, An Adventure, Ancient Chiang Mai, Andrew, Animismus, Animist, Are They, Armstrong, Bad Liebenzell, Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Bartholomew, Chiang Mai, Christianity, Cognoscenti Books, Columbia University Press, Continuum, Cosmology Another extracted example is Animism → Abram, Alexander Charles Oughter, An Earthly Cosmology, Archaeology, Ashley, Becoming Animal, Berkeley, Bibcode, Bird-David, California Press, Changed, Charles Scribner's Sons, Co, Current Anthropology, Curtis, David, Dorling Kindersley, Enchantment, Encyclopædia Britannica, Environment. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Animism

Top relations

related to Further reading · 93
Animism → Adler, Alfred Irving, America, An Adventure, Ancient Chiang Mai, Andrew, Animismus, Animist, Are They, Armstrong, Bad Liebenzell, Ballantine Books, Bantam Books, Bartholomew, Chiang Mai, Christianity, Cognoscenti Books, Columbia University Press, Continuum, Cosmology
related to Sources · 73
Animism → Abram, Alexander Charles Oughter, An Earthly Cosmology, Archaeology, Ashley, Becoming Animal, Berkeley, Bibcode, Bird-David, California Press, Changed, Charles Scribner's Sons, Co, Current Anthropology, Curtis, David, Dorling Kindersley, Enchantment, Encyclopædia Britannica, Environment
related to Confounding animism with totemism · 16
Animism → Aboriginal Australians, According, Anthropologists, Bachofen, Certain, Durkheim, Edinburgh, In, Inuit, John Ferguson McLennan, Primitive, Sigmund Freud, Subsequent, Tim Ingold, Tylor, Tylor's
related to Religion · 16
Animism → Africa, American, Americas, Asia, Columbus, European, Forbes, In, Jack, Native, Other Cannibals, Religion, Science, The Routledge Companion, There, This
related to Edward Tylor's definition · 14
Animism → According, Auguste Comte, For Tylor, He, However, Primitive, Primitive Culture, Sir Edward Tylor, Stringer, The, This, Thus, Tylor, Westerners
related to Hallowell and the Ojibwe · 12
Animism → Bird-David's, Canada, For, Hallowell, Hallowell's, He, Irving Hallowell, Nurit Bird-David, Ojibwe, Seven, The, Western
related to Postmodern anthropology · 10
Animism → As, Bruno Latour, Cartesian, Drawing, Human, In, Modernism, More, These, Tylor's
related to Relation to the concept of 'I-thou' · 10
Animism → Contemporary Animism, Graham Harvey, Handbook, Harvey, He, I-it, I-thou, In, Martin Buber's, Religious
related to Psychology · 9
Animism → Conversely, From, Guthrie, He, His, In, Jean Piaget, Margaret Mead, Stewart Guthrie
related to Social evolutionist conceptions · 9
Animism → According, By, However, The, Their, These, Tylor, Tylor's, With

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

world animistic religion religions animist spiritual natural belief indigenous spirits animals religious also persons humans human life nature rather term

Animism relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 363 structured relationships around Animism. Examples in this analysis include Animism → is a → inverse of scientism and Animism → is a → wider and more inclusive term and that oral. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Animismis ainverse of scientism0.90text
Animismis awider and more inclusive term and that oral0.90text
Animismpart oftheir core beliefs as demonstrated by the belief in Anito0.85text
wordsinstance ofAnimism may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts0.80text
true namesinstance ofAnimism may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts0.80text
or metaphors in mythologyinstance ofAnimism may further attribute a life force to abstract concepts0.80text
the Aboriginal Australians are more typically totemic in their worldviewinstance ofCertain indigenous religious groups0.80text
whereas others like the Inuit are more typically animisticinstance ofCertain indigenous religious groups0.80text
the Bodhi Treeinstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text
numerous superlative banyan treesinstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text
conserve the sacred groves of Indiainstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text
revere the rivers as sacredinstance ofIndian religions worship trees0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Animism bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Religious, Term and Spiritual. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Animism
    • Religious
    • Term
    • Spiritual
    • Belief
    • Natural
    • Tylor
    • World
    • Life
    • Religion
    • Also
    • Humans
    • Indigenous
  • animism
    • Religious
    • Term
    • Spiritual
    • Belief
    • Natural
    • Tylor
    • World
    • Life
    • Religion
    • Also
    • Humans
    • Indigenous
  • life
    • Term
    • Religious
    • Natural
    • Tylor
    • View
    • Religion
    • Animists
    • New
    • Persons
    • Nature
    • Also
    • Belief
  • animals
    • Natural
    • Objects
    • Spirit
    • Animist
    • World
    • Human
    • Animistic
    • Humans
    • Spirits
    • Belief
    • Experience
    • Soul
  • belief system
    • Animist
    • Objects
    • Many
    • Religion
    • Religious
    • Natural
    • Spirit
    • Religions
    • Indigenous
    • Spiritual
    • World
    • Tylor
  • indigenous peoples
    • Religions
    • Religion
    • Term
    • People
    • Religious
    • Spirits
    • Rituals
    • Often
    • Also
    • Animistic
    • Tylor
    • Experience
  • guinness world records
    • Natural
    • Spirit
    • Human
    • Animals
    • Humans
    • Animism
    • Within
    • Animist
    • Animists
    • Harvey
    • Many
    • Rather
  • indigenous people
    • Religion
    • Religions
    • Term
    • People
    • Religious
    • Spirits
    • Tylor
    • Rituals
    • Often
    • Also
    • Animistic
    • Within

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Animism, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Animism with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
AnimismOverview · splits 130 ⟂ 148
AnimismReligion · splits 250 ⟂ 28
AnimismOther usage · splits 251 ⟂ 27
Animism"New animism" definitions · splits 253 ⟂ 25
Animism"Old animism" definitions · splits 259 ⟂ 19
AnimismSources · splits 264 ⟂ 14
AnimismAnimist life · splits 267 ⟂ 11
AnimismEtymology · splits 273 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Animism

Nodes278
Edges277
Triples363
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007194
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Animism to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Religion, "New animism" definitions & Other usage, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Animism · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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