RELIGST 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Edo Period, Meiji Period, Mary Douglas

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2TT3
• Professor: Mark Rowe

Document Summary

The reading for thursday be up on avenue. No more readings on reverse, be on avenue or online. If your white male or female you would be treated very differently than if your korean, etc. Depending on where you are rural, etc. Issue of taboo things that are prohibited. What do taboos do: protect social structure incest, to protect a group and its continuation through time. The idea of what"s dirty is different in each land. Mary douglas: where there is dirt, there is system. dirt is matter out of place. The idea of a system, of rules, boundaries between acceptable practices/shapes/skin/manner, etc. You have an outline of a system, you have a structure. Replace the word dirt" with unnatural, unclean, non-christian, scrap goat, etc. terms that define normal and abnormal. Liminal space the betwixt and between the spaces between in and out, us and them, natural and unnatural.