As a self-described " confirmed scientific rationalist ", Tylor believed that this view was " childish " and typical of " cognitive underdevelopment ", and that it was therefore common in " primitive " peoples such as those living in hunter gatherer societies.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.

The efforts of the self-described " reformers ", who objected to (" protested ") the doctrines, rituals, and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led to the creation of new national Protestant churches.

Lewis, a self-described " strong monarchist ", wrote " Civilization is more than an abstraction.

The origin of the word " herpetoculture " is credited to Tom Huff, who devised the word to distinguish what he, as a self-described " herpetoculturist ", was doing -- working to keeping reptiles and amphibians alive and healthy -- from what herpetologists of that era were generally doing, namely, collecting specimens for preservation in museum collections.

A political conservative and self-described " right-winger ", who has publicly protested against what he perceives as immorality and " anti-Catholicism ", Morrissey's long-term collaboration with the low-keyed, apparently apolitical Warhol was viewed by many as " a successful mismatch ", although both men did share some traits, i. e. both were practising Catholics from " ethnic " backgrounds ( Warhol was of Rusyn descent and Morrissey is of Irish descent ).

A self-described " hero-worshipper ", Clark proved to be an ardent pro-individualist, Humanist and anti-Marxist.

The film features two men, Johnny B. and Kamal, aka " the Jerky Boys ", two self-described " low-lifes from Queens ", who get into trouble with the Mafia when one of their prank calls leads them into a money laundering business.

Scholz, a self-described " Obama supporter ", sent an open letter to Huckabee in February 2008 stating that the band had never endorsed any candidate, and that he had never authorized the use of " More Than a Feeling " as Huckabee's theme song.

He is a lifelong fan of professional wrestling and self-described " wrestlemaniac ", and appeared at an Extreme Championship Wrestling event wielding an acoustic guitar as a weapon.

A self-described " solitary person ", he finds it somewhat annoying being a television celebrity in Britain, where he is often recognised by members of the public, some of whom request his autograph.

The 5 ' 6 ", self-described " unathletic " writer played in three preseason games and recorded one reception for-2 yards.

A self-described " ladies ' man ", Buono persuaded Bianchi to join him in prostituting two women, holding them as virtual prisoners.

The self-described " Gumbo Capital of the World ", Bridge City, Louisiana, holds an annual Gumbo Festival.

Further releases found him working in a variety of band and solo contexts including two albums with his self-described " dance band ", Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos < ref >

The name came about because Ivan and his two brothers, following the self-described principle of " style before comfort ", refused to wear hats during Montreal's cold winters, calling themselves " the men without hats.

A self-described " man of the old school " who viewed the Tsar as the " anointed one, the rightful sovereign ", Goremykin was a loyal supporter of Nicholas II as autocrat and accordingly pursued conservative policy.

", expressing his wish to play a doubleheader every day out of his pure love for the game of baseball, especially in his self-described " friendly confines of Wrigley Field.

Her music style is self-described as " violin techno-acoustic fusion ", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style.

* The Kangaroo Brothers-Led by Walter, a self-described expert boomerang thrower, and also including his brothers, the taller Horsey and the shorter Colt.

") A self-described " lonely latchkey kid ," Benson dropped out of school following her sophomore year of high school, and left home when she was sixteen.

Tristan Prettyman performing at the San Diego, California House of Blues in 2006. Inspired by DiFranco's music and due in part to her nature of being a self-described " nosy kid " she entered her parents ' room and began playing around with her father's old acoustic guitar.

A self-described liberal media watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ( FAIR ), in consultation with the Survey and Evaluation Research Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University, sponsored an academic study in which journalists were asked a range of questions about how they did their work and about how they viewed the quality of media coverage in the broad area of politics and economic policy.

Camille Paglia, a self-described " dissident feminist " who has often been at odds with other academic feminists, argues that the Marxist-inspired interpretation of misogyny so prevalent in second-wave feminism is seriously flawed.

According to Irving Kristol, self-described founder of American Neoconservatism, Thucydides wrote " the favorite neoconservative text on foreign affairs "; and Thucydides is a required text at the Naval War College, an American institution located in Rhode Island.

He was a self-described " gym rat " who spent most of his time at the Ocean Beach Recreation Center and Robb Field.

Even his self-described " beginning " at the Art Students League of New York was not whole-hearted commitment ; two months after he returned to Portland to visit his family, he joined a theater group run by Clark Gable ’ s wife, Josephine Dillon.

The population of the self-described " bedroom community " was 3, 027 at the 2000 census.

His parents hoped he would eventually continue on to study at university, but Daltrey turned out to be a self-described " school rebel " and developed a dedicated interest in the emerging rock and roll music scene instead.

In a 2004 study, Tim Groseclose, a self-described " conservative professor " and Jeff Milyo, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institute, calculated the ideological bias of 20 media outlets by counting the frequency they cited particular think tanks and comparing that to the frequency that legislators cited the same think tanks.

Lee Harvey Oswald, at that time a 14-year old disturbed boy living in the Bronx, received one of thse pamphlets, and six years later would tell a reporter in Moscow ( after he had defected to the USSR ) that this marked the beginning of this interest in " socialist literature ," which he then proceeded to seek out and read, soon becoming a self-described lifelong " Marxist.

Despite his self-described " naturally joyous " nature, life for Lowell at Elmwood was further complicated by his father becoming deaf in his old age, and the deteriorating mental state of his sister Rebecca, who sometimes went a week without speaking.

On August 23, 2003, while in protective custody at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, Geoghan was strangled and stomped to death in his cell by Joseph Druce, a self-described white supremacist and inmate serving a sentence of life without possibility of parole for killing a man who allegedly made a sexual pass after picking Druce up hitchhiking.

Likewise, self-described " continental philosophers " can be found in philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, North America, and Australia, and some well-known analytic philosophers claim to conduct better scholarship on continental philosophy than self-identified programs in continental philosophy, particularly at the level of graduate education.

It is self-described as providing " both a forum for exchanging ideas related to peace, and for suggesting means at all levels to use in resolving differences between individuals, groups, nations, or even species.

Lang is scheduled to travel to Pyongyang on 9 November for a self-described " listening mission " aimed at exploring bilateral ties and discussing the North Korean nuclear program, among other things.

FIRE supported Linda McCarriston, a poet, professor and self-described socialist at the University of Alaska Anchorage, in a case in which the University was investigating her for a poem she had published on sexual abuse involving Native Alaskans.

Unofficial organizations for Democrats are those bodies, not officially affiliated with the United States Democratic Party, but primarily intended for the participation of people who are at least self-described Democrats.

The record label was founded by Snoop Lion at the end of his self-described " servitude " at Master P's No Limit Records.

According to the self-described " Cleverest Band in the World " at Columbia University, the origin of scramble bands is as follows:

* Andy Martin ( also known as Anthony Martin-Trigona ), a journalist and self-described consumer advocate has run for several local, state and federal offices dating back to at least 1977, including two runs for president and six runs for Senate.

The admiral is also featured in the self-described " UFO disclosure " documentary Fastwalkers: They Are Here as the commander of a naval ship whose crew reported sitings of extraterrestrial activity at sea.

Biologist, speculative-fiction author, and self-described biopunk, Meredith L. Patterson is known for her work on yogurt bacteria within the DIYbio community, as well as being the author of " A Biopunk Manifesto ", which she delivered at the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics ' symposium, " Outlaw Biology?

Falco had focused his 1970s work on video and photographic documentation of blues performers and local culture in the Memphis area with fellow videographer Randall Lyon, in a partnership they called TeleVista Projects, Inc. Chilton, who first encountered Falco while Lyon and Falco were videotaping some of the Sherbert sessions, formally met Falco a couple of months later after witnessing his self-described " art-action happening " during an October 1978 Mud Boy and the Neutrons " Tennessee Waltz " event in Memphis, at which Falco, untrained in music theory, surprised the audience by blowing a police whistle and chainsawing a guitar on stage halfway through a haywire rendition of Leadbelly's " Bourgeois Blues ".