Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal

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" Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal "
Nancy Frankenberry

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1077949
Doc. No	:	LA121578
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341458‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Nancy Frankenberry
Title & Author	:	Map is Not Territory, Menu is Not Meal [Article]\ Nancy Frankenberry
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Method Theory in the Study of Religion
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	31/1
Page No	:	3–13
Abstract	:	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. 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.
Descriptor	:	definition of religion
Descriptor	:	Donald Davidson
Descriptor	:	Hans Penner
Descriptor	:	Jonathan Z. Smith
Descriptor	:	radical empiricism
Descriptor	:	relativism
Descriptor	:	scheme-content distinction
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700682-12341458‬