ANTB66H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Buddhist Pilgrimage, Kenosis, Sanctification
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Last week we focused on work of victor and edith turner as they began to look for signs of anti- structure and communitas in complex societies. This led to their very initial work of anthropological studies of pilgrimage in the 1960"s. *essay due june 1st by 5pm, but extension given june 4th before 5pm. Watch the movie "the way" in the final week of class! Pilgrimage from home to a sacred site offered the laity a new degree of freedom from the profane world. Thus pilgrims in medieval europe achieved a degree of anti-structure similiar to that of those in. Communitas was achieved through the dangers of the journey, acts of peance performed, and moments of conviality (relationships) and commensality (sharing food with eachother) shared with fellow pilgrims they met along the way. Pilgrimage noted as group activity, but the pilgrims set out individually. We then examined two ethnographic studies of modern day pilgrimage.
