Anthropology 101 1st Edition Lecture 24 Outline of Last Lecture I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII Power Status Authority Autonomy Political Organization Maintaining control Cultural control Social control Sanctions Witchcraf Law Custom Worldview Religion Spirituality Syncretism Polytheism Monotheism Outline of Current Lecture I Animism II Animatism III Ancestor spirits IV Priest V Shaman VI Ritual VII Magic VIII Revitalization movement Current Lecture 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 Animism o Belief that there are spiritual entities that inhabit stuff in the world people animals human manufactured items Animatism o Belief that a kind of indwelling universal amorphous nonspecific power in the universe o A lot like force o Out there everywhere o Power to cause things to happen Make you sick do bad stuff people powerful make people humane o Power that is not specific in the universe not particular confined to a particular thing or person Ancestor spirits Priest o Doesn t personally make things happen master of going through important steps to do a ritual o Conducting rituals control the enactment of rituals Shaman o Male or female o Plural shamans o Person who is usually not full time practitioners o Manipulate the supernatural world directly o Do stuff that make things happen o Goal is through using ritual to make things happen o If you re sick they make people well o Get in touch with supernatural world so the supernatural entities make you better o It is the belief that many most or all of pathological conditions are spiritually caused Ritual o Patterned behavior that has a goal or purpose o Rite of passage Celebrated Marks religiously the passage or transition from one condition to another condition Birthday o Rite of intensification Ritual that reaffirms the most import values of a community Magic o Imitative Doing something that will correspond that you want to happen in the natural world Voodoo doll Not necessarily bad o Contagious Is the use of something that has touched the body of what you want to affect Usually a person but can be something else could be part of the person like hair or clothes Revitalization movement o Occurs when substantial numbers of people in a society are dissatisfied and unhappy and they say this isnt working the gods are not working profit will show up
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