ANTH 0780 1nd Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Last Lecture I. EthnographyA. Applying it to the reading Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownII. Picking a field siteA. 1980s (Reflexive Shift)III. Multisited fieldwork/ethnographyA. Following a group, idea, object, etc. as it travels to and through various locationsB. ExamplesIV. Gaining AccessA. Anthropological Code of EthicsB. Gate KeepersV. Fieldwork methodologyVI. FieldnotesA. Analyze NotesVII. Ethics of Representation in Ethnographic WritingOutline of Current Lecture I. TranslationA. The ability to explain one culture as a system of meanings to anotherB. Making the strange familiar, and the familiar strangeC. Emic Perspective– How “locals” think (Geertz: experience near)D. Etic PerspectiveE. Explanations II. Myth A. Stories B. MeaningThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.C. Effective III. RitualA. A repetitive set of social practices B. ConnectionsC. PerformedD. Set apart from everyday practicesE. Rites of Passage:F. LiminalityG. CommunitasH. How does ritual connect to myth?IV. PlayA. A socio-cultural framePleasurableB. Systematically related to nonplay worldC. Transforms objectsLiminal space Current LectureI. TranslationA. The ability to explain one culture as a system of meanings to anotherB. Making the strange familiar, and the familiar strangeC. Emic Perspective– How “locals” think (Geertz: experience near)D. Etic PerspectiveE. Explanations of the anthropologist or social scientist (Geertz: experience far)II. Myth A. Stories that explain how various aspects of the world came to be the way they are.B. Make life meaningful for those who accept themC. Effective because they integrate personal experience with a wider set of assumptions about the way the world worksIII. RitualA. A repetitive set of social practices composed of a sequence of symbolic activitiesB. Connects to specific set of ideas often encoded in mythC. Performed, meaning they include some or all of the following: dance, song, speech, gestures, or the manipulation of objectsD. Set apart from everyday practicesE. Rites of Passage:1. A ritual that serves to mark the movement and transformation of an individual from one social position to another.2. High School Graduation:– Marks transition from high school to college – Transformation of child into adult?3. Approximately 18-23 years old– Studying while parents support him or her – Not self-sufficient– Not quite a child but not quite an adultF. Liminality1. Ambiguous transitional state in a rite of passage in which the person or persons undergoing are outside their ordinary social positionsG. Communitas1. The minimally or un- structured community of individuals found frequently in rites of passageH. How does ritual connect to myth?1. Myth: stories that explain how the world came to be the way it is2. Ritual: practices that reaffirm myths because the ritual is premised on the idea ofthe literalness of the myth. In other words, it is premised on the idea of belief and assumes that all messages encoded in the performance are true.IV. PlayA. A socio-cultural frame that is acknowledged by the participants (i.e., players)B. PleasurableC. Systematically related to nonplay world (i.e., set apart from everyday actions)D. Transforms objects, roles, actions, and relations of ends and means in the nonplay worldE. Liminal space between what is and what can be1. A space in which authority is questioned2. A space in which socio-cultural norms are