ANTH 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Harvest Festival, Liminality, Hajj
15 Jul 2015
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The ritual process: role and structure of myth in society, rites of passage and their role in society, the cognized environment and how we map reality, role of myth in modern life where are we headed, paleolithic ritual spaces, rituals and theatre share common characteristics. Principle of transubstantiation: role of myth, there are two ways to look at myth, expression or crystallization of centrally important cultural tenets/current state of affairs, as convention that is codified and emerges through performance/language, foi infants are all named after relatives to reflect the return of ancestors, foi men of hegeso have a myth associated with every spell. Facilitated by emergent media television: cognized and operational environments, the model was created by roy rappaport and extended by charles laughlin, operational environment (ec) that which is, cognized environment (eo) that which we think/conceive/perceive, the zone of uncertainty (zounc, environmental perception and cognition, process by which one remembers details of place within one"s spatial environment.
