ANTH 202 Lecture 2: Lecture 2

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 202
• Professor: Eduardo Kohn

Document Summary

Movie of life and death, life of death and death of life. The first images show death in an animalistic way, but throughout the film, death is shown in a human form with rituals in benares (holiest place for hindus) Nor(cid:373)al e(cid:448)eryday tasks (cid:894)(cid:272)lea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g floor, getti(cid:374)g (cid:449)ater, (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g (cid:862)ladders(cid:863)(cid:895) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e i(cid:374)tert(cid:449)i(cid:374)ed i(cid:374)to the ritual of death. (cid:894)the (cid:862)ladders(cid:863) e(cid:374)d up to (cid:271)e the (cid:271)oard to tra(cid:374)sport the (cid:271)ody(cid:895) Importance of water: swim in it, boating, ritual at shrines, sending off the dead. Their ritual of death is complex compared to ours; they are actively participating in the ritual, while we detach ourselves from death. The colors that are predominant (yellow and red) give such a powerful aura that (cid:373)ake us (cid:862)feel yello(cid:449)(cid:863) or the (cid:862)yello(cid:449)(cid:374)ess(cid:863) (cid:449)ithout a(cid:272)tually k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g (cid:449)hat this (cid:373)ea(cid:374)s. Without subtitles, the sounds and the visuals make us think about what we hear and what we see.