ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Festus Mogae, Renato Rosaldo, Thick Description
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Anta02: lecture 3 on fieldwork, feelings, & emotional force. Grief and a headhunter"s rage by renato rosaldo: Most basic level anthro who doesn"t understand why this tribe cuts off the head, and then he finally understands it. No he doesn"t, he is not able nor the tribe is to explain it in terms that the rest can understand; the reason is emotional you feel it or you don"t. Sometimes we cannot explain things to people on the outside. At times, you have to feel something yourself in order to truly understand it. We should not understood that ever culture has some depth symbolic meaning. Sometimes you cannot explain things through symbolic depth (some psychological reason) cut off headings is not symbolic or meaningful it is just an act of rage. We shouldn"t assume a symbolic depth to cultural practice. Chopping off head is not some meaningful or symbolic act its just simply chopping off heads because of rage.