ANTH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peter Adair, Snake Handling, Anointing
11 Mar 2018
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Professor will give us an example next week. This week: slightly different types of reading, different types of protestantism: pentecostalism 2) evangelical protestantism focusing on converting people from gay to straight. Author does good job in presenting an interesting piece of ethnography. What should the anthropologists role be in relation to study Robert orsi argues that anthropologist should be in a point in suspension, slightly removed from subjects. Orsi raises question of how those who write about the strange do their work. How do we analyze something totally different from own trajectory and make connection with her own. What does it take to understand it. What would your research questions be if you attempted to analyze pentecostalism as your field site. Pentecostalism: term from pentecostal or pentecost with emphasis of god"s direct intervention in people through the holy spirit. Speaking in tongues, foreign language manifested in those communicating through holy spirit = being reborn in the spirit.
