POLI 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Orality, Chthonic
23 Sep 2017
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Tradition simply emerged, as experience grew and orality and memory did their work ch thonic relationship of things in their environment. Goal: see in these constants a tradition itself. Human speech and human memory as primary point of transfer. Orality as form but also substance: absence of privilege (example read and write) But rooted in consensus (required communal agreement) Origin of many of the traditions is exist from chtonic consensus. Elders: (they become they ones you go see to ask about traditions, they have the info) Chiefdom: (centralized power and authority) they cannot rule if they don"t achieve consensus in their population. Aztec exception: they have judges, an appeal process. Property: use, occupation but short of property: absence of alienation. Humans were not seen have having domination of land or properties around them. The missing point of property, is the idea of disposal (alienation) of property. Religion is integrated into our daily life and passed down from generation to generation.
