ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Liminality, Two-Spirit, Biological Determinism
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Rituals that mark the transition from one life stage to another. Transition from one stage to another a social change in your self. Separation: person is separated from their former state, take out of regular life and put into ritual stage. Transition: most dangerous part of the rite of passage, symbolic dangerous, ur neither one thing or other. Idea of communities, development of a strong sense of feeling, u develop strong sense of relationship with the ppl that want thought he ritual with you. Cultural constructionism human behavior and ideas are best explained as the result of culturally-shaped learning. The a. arabs don"t use biology to explain things they believe that what god gave them is natural. Why ppl behave the way they do that"s the question of anthropologists. Biological determinism biological features such as genes or hormones are used to explain behavior and ideas.
