ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lebanese Arabic, Islamism, Passion Play
11 Oct 2018
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Lecture 5 ~ public piety and cultural relativism. Worldview: a system of concepts and assumptions about life. Cultural events: how an event is marked incorporates cultural meaning and values, nuit blanche, life cycle events: birthdays, weddings, funerals, commemorations: taking the past into the present, remembrance day in canada. The karbala paradigm: provides models for living and mnemonic for thinking about how to live, central gures: husayn, yazid and zaynab. Lebanese ashura: the commemoration of the martyrdom of imam husayn, majalis ~ mourning gatherings involving the retelling of the history, masiras, iamentation processions, pilgrimage to karbala, passion play, traditional vs authenticated commemorations. Individual and community: emotion and intellect b, role of women, circular and linear time. Circular vs linear cosmology: circular (traditional), tied to re-experiencing events, focus is on the past c. Iraqi poetry, lamentation emotionally linked: linear (authenticated), allows for change and progress, focus on present and future, retellings in lebanese dialect as history.
