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Lineage

Group of consanguineal kin who are descended firm a recognized ancestor, going back up to 7 generations.

Clan

A group of consanguineal kin who trace their bloodlines back in time to a common mythic ancestor beyond 7 generations back.

Margaret Mead

-Argued the nurture side of nature vs nurture


-argued male/female roles were socially constructed


-adolescent angst is not biological, but a cultural phenomenon.

Arapesh

Studied by Mead


Warm, happy, gentle, little differences between genders.


Babies picked up as soon as they cried, games off limits.

Munduganmor

Tough, hostile, aggressive.


Babies left to cry


Harsh reprimands for error

Tchambuli

Opposite of western gender roles.


Men artists, gossipy, etc.


Women did hard labour, etc.

Olpul ceremony

Baraguyu Masai of Tanzania


Meat feast during puberty initiation ceremonies.


Only time that Masai feast on beef, otherwise sacred.

Emic

Inductive (interpretive, experiential)

Etic

Deductive (model driven)

Collective effervescence

The feeling of power during group gatherings (Durkheim)


Powerful feeling of excitement among a crowd, explained in symbolic terms as the presence of a deity.

Arunta

-Aborigines of Australia


-Have a totemic system of classification. (clans represented by totemic symbols of animals)


-arunta forbidden from eating animal.


-totem seen as the ancestor and spirit of the clan.

Shamanic rites of passage

Mark the transition from regular person to healer

Bardo state

The transitional state that occurs to a soul after death while its waiting for incarnation - a limbo.


For Tibetans, it marks the rite of passage to the next life.

Kwageulth

Of van island


Winter dance ceremony known as the cannibal dance


Initiates young warriors coming back from their summer puberty rites.

N'lakapumux (Thompson River) & St'at'imc (Lillooet) plateau tribes

-Puberty rite: youth go off to forest for summer period seeking guardian spirit.

3 main stages of rites of passage

Victor turner and von gannep Ceremonial aggregation


Liminal or isolation


Reintegration