ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Essentialism, Spirit Possession, Khoikhoi
12 Mar 2016
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The vampire was perceived as dreadful and repellent monster. Change from frightening vampire to sexual and eroic vampire. Partly due to the liberaion from censorship of sexual content. This resulted in popularizaion of sexual content on screen. In our pop culture seen as: charming, sophisicated, worldly, wealthy, older, male, malevolent, usually live alone, cultural outsiders (eastern europe) All religions begin as revitalizaion movements deliberate, organized, conscious efort by some members of society to create a more saisfying culture. : period of increased stress or dissaisfacion within a culture. Only select religions will move on to this phase: involve syncreism blending of spiritual beliefs and tradiions from two or more cultural tradiions. Chrisianity: jewish people -- religious persecuion at hands of roman colonizers, jesus emerges as charismaic leader/saviour persuasive, eloquent, and gathers a following of disciples , gradually expands, atracts more followers, becomes rouinized. World war ii was a source of stress for many paciic islands: process of westernizaion and change.
