Anthropology 101 1st Edition Lecture 24Outline of Last Lecture I. PowerII. Status III. Authority IV. Autonomy V. Political Organization VI. Maintaining controlVII. Cultural controlVIII. Social controlIX. Sanctions X. WitchcrafXI. Law XII. CustomXIII. Worldview XIV. Religion XV. Spirituality XVI. Syncretism XVII. Polytheism XVIII. Monotheism Outline of Current Lecture I. Animism II. Animatism III. Ancestor spirits IV. PriestV. ShamanVI. Ritual VII. MagicVIII. Revitalization movementCurrent LectureThese 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 oBelief that there are spiritual entities that inhabit stuff in the world (people, animals, human manufactured items)-Animatism oBelief that a kind of indwelling universal amorphous nonspecific power in the universeoA lot like force oOut there, everywhereoPower to cause things to happen-Make you sick, do bad stuff, people powerful, make people humaneoPower that is not specific, in the universe, not particular confined to a particular thing or person-Ancestor spirits-Priest oDoesn’t personally make things happen, master of going through important steps to do aritualoConducting rituals, control the enactment of rituals -Shaman oMale or femaleoPlural=shamans oPerson who is usually not full time practitionersoManipulate the supernatural world directly oDo stuff that make things happen oGoal is through using ritual to make things happen oIf you're sick they make people well oGet in touch with supernatural world so the supernatural entities make you betteroIt is the belief that many most or all of pathological conditions are spiritually caused -RitualoPatterned behavior that has a goal or purposeoRite of passage-Celebrated-Marks religiously the passage or transition from one condition to another condition -Birthday oRite of intensification -Ritual that reaffirms the most import values of a community -Magic oImitative-Doing something that will correspond that you want to happen in the natural world-Voodoo doll-Not necessarily bad oContagious -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 movementoOccurs 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
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