ANTB21H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 cont.
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Antb21 lecture 4 cont. (thursday) february 2, 2012. Bodily position, differentiating between left and right hand. The form of language elaborates itself to make itself stand out. The stages of the birth of the basil cane are integrated into the inarkana: ***ritual has quality of diagramming the sacred knowledge of how the basil cane is born. Parallelism is the effect that is created by making lines appear coherent to each other by repetition of the form, getting more elaborate. ***intense parallelism stands out, not regular speech, hence why it is used in ritual context. Language is put together with all these other practices and times: coordinated into one ensemble saying i m not like everything else. Tons of parallelism: purple on slide, green is transitive verbs. The understanding of tradition and things being repeated comes down to the fixidity of the text. Showing that the inauguration is very important to the country because there are big stakes involved.
