ANTH 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Houngan, Animism
26 Jun 2020
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Priests- full time religious specialists include things such as ministers, and etc. , training- go to school, sacred texts, rituals. Calling- hold up as ideal, normal people. Effectiveness- tied to knowledge of ritual and scripture. Spiritual not physical because there usually in a place with doctors. Foraging, horticultural, pastoral societies (when they"re not doing religious stuff, they are doing things that everyone else is doing) Balance between body and spirit = physical well being. Contact the spirit world in order to heal -> trance, dreaming techniques. Expectations of the patient invite tests of ecstasy . They use both drugs and spiritual healing but drugs is insignificant in comparison to the. Rituals alter your state to be vulnerable to possession and the people want. Wade davis to be possessed (by the loa) because it gives them godly power. The serpent and the rainbow - by wade davis. Vodou possession a woman became obsessed by the loa and gained supernatural abilities.
