RLG332H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Inanna, Clifford Geertz, Ereshkigal
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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. /heroine unless they conquer the territory and subdue it: the divine feminine and the frontier myth. Just as there are christ figures, buddhist and muslim figure in hollywood, so there are divine figures. Women are portrayed as wavier to men and not centre of action. Divine 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 mistres sad virgin traditionally represent for men. Frontier hero faces a territory they cannot conquer.
