ANTB66H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Christian Pilgrimage, Entwine, Sanctification
Document Summary
We focused on the work of victor and edith turner as they began to look for signs of anti-structures and communitas in complex societies: this led to anthropological studies of pilgrimage in the 1960s. Thus pilgrims in medieval europe achieved a degree of anti-structure similar to that of those in monastic europe. Fulfillment of vows: usually to god. We then examined last week about two ethnographic studies of modern day christian pilgrimage: Tourists: she upset notion of how to define pilgrimage, she talked about turner"s tradition of pilgrims versus religious creatives, discovered that not all pilgrimages is not the same. Sanctification overland: the creation of a thai buddhist pilgrimage center: by: james pruess. Chart historical development of wats (buddhist temples) as pilgrimage sites. Embed the history of shrines in religious, social and political economic transformations in thailand. Both essays trouble the simplistic way we think of political change.
