ANTHR101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Cultural Universal, Zande People
6 Apr 2016
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Religion: ideas & pracices that postulate reality beyond that which is immediately available to the senses (bowen 2008: 4) Ritual: a repeiive social pracice composed of a sequence of symbolic aciviies (lavenda & schultz, 2012l476) Worldview: human interpretaions of reality informed by the culture of the individual. Ideology: a worldview that jusiies social arrangements under which people live (lavenda & schultz, 2012:473) Spirits: lower than gods and thus closer" to humans they take a more acive interest in human afairs, oten causing mischief or carrying out evil deeds of malevolent humans. Ghosts: supernatural beings that were once human, their acions might be perceived by the living (appears to be a human universal) Ancestor spirits: deceased kin of living individuals, they take a vested interest in the lives of living relaives. Shaman: part-ime religious specialist, high status, usually male, oten a healer. Sorcerers & witches: either sex, low status and oten feared as they have the power to elicit harm.
