ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rangda, Spirit Possession, Bruno Latour

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: Shawn Lehman

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Spirit of god was hovering over the waters. Separation between skies and seas, light and darkness; he"s (cid:272)reati(cid:374)g separatio(cid:374)s upo(cid:374) (cid:272)reati(cid:374)g the (cid:449)orld: real unformed, no categories and cannot talk about it, religion: etymology, possi(cid:271)l(cid:455): (cid:862)re-li(cid:374)k(cid:863) or putti(cid:374)g together (cid:449)hat had been severed. Only in recent times, did the world become disenchanted. Other scholars believed that the world has not become disenchanted, that even today and always the world will always remain enchanted since there will always be that impulse to re-link with the real. Impossible to not respond to the irrational feeling / double belief that there is a god: (cid:862)i do (cid:374)ot (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) god, (cid:271)ut i (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e that god is (cid:373)a(cid:374)"s greatest idea. (cid:863) camille. Paglia: he does(cid:374)"t (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) god (cid:894)do(cid:272)torial (cid:449)a(cid:455)(cid:895), (cid:271)ut there is so(cid:373)e se(cid:374)se of. God that she believes in: no definition, pro(cid:271)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g (cid:449)e (cid:272)all (cid:862)religio(cid:374)(cid:863) is a(cid:271)out re-linking with the real, but not everything that.