Cats cradle bokonism essay
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Cat’s Cradle
Bokononism Essay
Topic: “This was not an honorary degree but an earned one, given on the basis of what the faculty committee called the anthropological basis of my novels” (Kurt Vonnegut, who attended the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947, on receiving his M.A. in Anthropology in 1971 for his novel Cat’s Cradle).
Assignment: For the purposes of this essay, each student is to choose one of the following researchers and use that researcher’s work to analyze whether Bokononism meets his/her definition or criteria for a religion
Gustavo Benavides
Joseph Campbell
Numa Fustel de Coulanges
Emile Durkheim
Mircea Eliade
E.E. Evans-Pritchard
Ludwig Feuerbach
Sir James Frazer
Sigmund Freud
Clifford Geertz
A. Goldenweiser
Georg Hegel
William James
Bernard Lacroix
Claude Levi-Strauss
Lucien Levy-Bruhl
Robert Lowie
Bronislaw Malinowski
Karl Marx
Bernard McGrave
Baron de Montesquieu
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
Paul Radin
William Robertson-Smith
Ninian Smart
Huston Smith
Herbert Spencer
Edward Tylor Anthony F.C. Wallace
Max Weber