ANTB66H3 Lecture 4: Lecture Four
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Discussion concerning the need that pilgrimage studies in anthropology to be both diachronic (attuned to history) and synchronic (attuned to the ethnographic movement) To get a sense of what"s history and ethnographic movement we looked at welsingham as a pilgrimage site. Medieval pilgrimages: change over time due to political events. According to the turners, each type of pilgrimage influences all the observes: so a single pilgrimage system absorbs the others, pilgrimage has archaeological layers, there is a way that a single layer represent everything. Dialectical usually refers to the struggles: example: tortis is on a path on the tundra and he meets leopard. Tortis made differences in the sand to claim that this location has evidence of true struggles: two contenders fighting for supremacy dialectical. One roman catholic: les santes maries de la mer in france by ellen badone. One eastern orthodox : pilgrimages are progressions of holy icons in moscow.
