ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Clitoridectomy, Init, Marcel Mauss
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Instead, it is about where you agree with something, partake in it: complicates some of our stereotypes, the belief in witchcraft is mere superstition or lack of education, that religions and religious beliefs and practices are coherent, unified, and always provide comfort, that families are a space of comfort, buffer from poverty, this book doesn"t have a lot of theory in it. You are pulled into a moral relationship (conforming to a standard of good and right behavior: three types of obligations, obligation to give gifts, obligation to receive gifts, obligation to return gifts (pay them back, this is the theory of social relations, reciprocity and inequality, in gifts, mana: kind of spiritual authority derived from having a wealth of resources to give to others to bind them into reciprocal obligations, the person who gives the most, most powerful, most mana.