RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wiping, Personation, Sympathetic Resonance
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Part4 - the ancestral family & rites and music (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Entire one, from the first (cid:1) generation and on. Having a virtue; a talent that make it special. His due is to transmit that virtue in order to succeed the lineage. (cid:1) (cid:1) Father-son (most important), include the mother (parents in general) Older brother-younger brother hierarchy, they don"t stand together, older set an example. Younger set a pressure for the older to act morally. Ruler-subject (btw 2 ppl outside of the family) Friend-friend (kind of older brother-younger brother) internal (cid:1) senor-junior relationship. Family alliances (decision made by the 2 fathers) sometimes arranged very early (before children born very rich ppl), more often, they did not know who they will marry (sometimes they marry them after they die). He is 38, the wife is 35, the concubine is 15, age of his daughter. She has no status, no authority, no dignity, but can have the affection of the husband.