ANTH 363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mary Douglas, Zande People
14 Feb 2017
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Invisible evil, that you might not know about. Herbalist / house wives / herbal knowledge. Kid or married -> under control: misfortune, bewitched, ilness. > if something falls on you, it fell because of termites, but you were there because of witchcraft. Close kin, but not through -> patriarchal or aristocracy. Spiting water -> to clean yourself, cool off witchcraft, animosity. Not a witch -> polite to everyone, nice person, not jealous, generous. Benge -> a poison used in a ritual given to a chicken, to see if he dies (given 5 times to humans?) Responsibility differs? compensation -> responsibility for unconscious. > tort laws -lawyers problems: very few tort laws got o trial, 31381 expensive, assumes everything has a monetary value. Cost of commodities -> companies just pays for it.
