ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Procedural Law, Veganism, Book Of Leviticus
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Lecture 3: the power of classiication: taboo and law. Singular/shybrid: dirt is matter out of place ie hard on the head is pretty but when it is in the drain its gross. People will drink from water fountains but not from toilets even though they have the same plumbing. How about non-religious food taboos and notions of cleanliness and purity: veganism, gluten free, organic. Purity and pollution based upon people"s cultural practices. Food taboos are a form of law that operate within microcultures as deined by religion or other groups determined by self-identiication: how do the laws of speciic microcultures come to be codiied as. Substantive law within national contexts: law and order is a culturally relative concept, this takes us back to discussions of classiication, fold, taxonomy, and power, such codiication may create diiculties for those whose deinitions of. Law difer multiple legal frameworks may be necessary.
