ANTH 0780 1nd Edition Lecture 7 Outline of Last 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. MeaningC. 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?These 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.IV. PlayA. A socio-cultural frame B. PleasurableC. Systematically related to nonplay worldD. Transforms objectsE. Liminal spaceOutline of Current Lecture I. Cultural PatternsA. Mary Douglas’ Argument in Purity and DangerB. Identifying Cultural Patterns1. Articulateness 2. InarticulatenessC. Marginality D. LiminalityII. Power A. Marginality/Liminality:B. Pattern identified by Douglas:C. Power can be:D. Power and PollutionCurrent LectureI. Cultural PatternsA. Mary Douglas’ Argument in Purity and Danger1. Rituals surrounding purity and impurity help people make sense of elements thatseem out of place within their cultural system.2. Rituals help people reconcile those objects/experiences that correspond to or are foreign to the expectations of their cultural systems. B. Identifying Cultural Patterns1. Articulateness (as per Douglas’ argument)- the ability to identify and name the place of an object, person, category, etc. within a cultural pattern2. Inarticulateness– The inability to identify and nameC. Marginality 1. A person, object, etc. that exists outside of the social structure or that does not seem to belong to the cultural patternD. Liminality1. A person, object, space that is in between2. The transitional state is dangerous because its indefinable II. Power A. Marginality/Liminality:1. Dangerous because both have contact with the power of disorder, or with what might be thought of as those things that are cannot be articulated by a culture’s system of patternsB. Pattern identified by Douglas:1. The power associated with marginality/liminality similar the world over2. Controlledpower– explicitly named and part of social structure (example: Sorcery)3. Uncontrolled– inexplicit and not part of social structure (example: Witchcraft) C. Power can be:1. Failure-biased– power that aims to bring about failure (example: witchcraft, accusations2. Success-biased– dangerous powers that enable success or benign powers that bring about goodD. Power and Pollution1. Power“Never neutral or free of dominant patterns of social structure”2. Pollutiona. Represents power that cannot be learned through initiation or other formsb. Inadvertently committed, although intention does not matter3. Power and Pollution imbricate with one another4. Dirt is disorder 5. Occurs when the lines of structure are not clearly
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