RLG332H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Clifford Geertz, Inanna
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Clifford geertz definition: 3 fold manner: - myth conveys a worldview, set of values that idealize how the world should be, a ritual expression that unites the two. Excursus: narrative: what is the diff between myth and any story in general, gianetti: narrative is fundamental to myth. Campbell"s analysis fitting in the classical narrative. Just as there are christ figures, buddhists and muslim figures in. Women are portrayed as wavier to men and not center of action. Divide feminine subjected to the hero"s journey. The american landscape has not been experience as something similar to or merely comparable to bus as the female principle of gratification itself comprising all qualities that mother mistress and virgin traditionally represent for men. Frontier hero faces a territory they cannot conquer. In contrast to the beauty of western sci-fi are often horror not romances of conquest. Also the divine now is the subject of its own action .
