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The Transformational Model of Linguistics and Its Implications for an Ethnology of Religion: A Case Study of Jainism 1
Author(s) -
DURBIN MRIDULA A.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1970.72.2.02a00070
Subject(s) - transformational leadership , linguistics , sociology , applied linguistics , epistemology , philosophy , anthropology , psychology , social psychology
The transformational model of linguistics has proven illuminating in understanding certain aspects of language. With the hope that a comparable model of analysis for other cultural systems may also prove useful, I discuss in this paper a theoretical model for an ethnology of religion that is analogous to the transformational model of linguistics in its assumptions, goals, and structure. Such a theoretical model is applied to analyze a part of Jainism. [India, religion, Jainism, ethnoscience, transformational theory]