ANTH 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Unilineality, Elman Service, George Manuel

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Techniques of ecstasy that shamans might seek out to help heal people. A nonreligious example might be daydreaming or geing drunk. The altering of one"s mental state for a heightened religious experience. One may bring about these states through the reducion of external simuli (turning of lights, sounds, meditaing, entering a trance) Repeiion of sound may bring about an altered state (chaning) Strenuous motor acivity (drumming, dancing singing) may be ied as well to the repeiion of sound. Change body chemistry (fasing, denial of water, denial of oxygen, invoke a fever/hypothermia) Entopic images : visions in the eye (pressing on eyeball that may produces interpretaions depending on cultural/religious background) Sacred paid: huring the body for the sake of the soul, creaing pain for a sensaion of euphoria (walking over coals, snake bites, piercings, circumcision) Examples: lady xok with thorns being pulled through the tongue, sun dance of naive north americans. Vodoun (haii): blended religion of catholicism and african spiritual tradiions.

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