Anthro Test 2: Ritual/ Religion

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Worldview:

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All encompassing pictures

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Religion:

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Beliefs and rituals relating to supernatural beings, powers and forces

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19th Century Intellectualists Origin of religion view: Tylor and Frazier:

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-Religion is like a primitive form of science that would eventually die out.
-Magic.
-Law of similarity: imitative magic-voodoo.
law of contagion: things that have come in contact maintain negative magical force.

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Functionalists’ view of religion: Malinowski

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Function of religion is to give people sense of power and stability, psychologically humans need it to survive.

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Functionalists’ view of religion: Radcliffe Brown

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Rituals/ religion cause anxiety and channel emotion, Religious training gives us, anxiety/fear/uncertainty, which we collectively dispel when we carry out rituals-creates sense of solidarity

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Type of religious specialists: Priests

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Full time specialist, hierarchical societies, mediate contact with supernatural deities using rituals

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Type of religious specialists: shamans

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Part time, direct line of communication with invisible powers, non-western societies.

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Mehinaku shamanism

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*Masters of medicine (herbalist)
Yetamaa: Communicates with spirits-cures patients with smoke
Yakapa: Communicates w/ spirits-cures using breath and song
Kaukii: intrusive object shot into somebody by a spirit (arrow, knife)

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Ritual (4 characteristics of)

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1. Special occasion
2. People are in an attentive state of mind
3. rules-stereotyped, formalized, activities often in repetiton
4. Expresses/communicates values through symbols

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Rites of Passage (Van Gennep’s 3 part model):

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Bring about change in social status
1. Separation: removed from everyday life
2. Liminality: lack social status, transition b/w statuses 3. reincorporation: now in the group, given something to signify entry into group

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Communitas (Victor Turner

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Transformative moment during the liminal phase likened to a moment of communal ecstasy where people feel a common bond through a single shared identity *a community of equals