Anthropology 1025F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Zande People, Vision Quest, Religious Experience
14 Nov 2014
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Coping with life: ritual, religion, relations with the supernatural. Three stages: there are gender separated rituals, teaching them about men and woman liminality: a transitional stage. Incorporation: then incorporated into social with a new name: separation: separated from their families and support groups, these are often painful such as physical pain and joined of a warrior society, marriage is a rite of passage. Religion beliefs and rituals pertaining to the supernatural. Example : lucky: mythologies about the historical deeds of these powers: explain how the world was created, sometimes they tell them how to act in specific ways and how they will punish you for miss conduct. Functions of religion: there is a diversity in religion, however there are some ritual that everyone follows. Some rituals do not work and supernatural powers are not proven to exist. Intellectual/cognitive: people cannot tolerate uncertainty, it serves to explain things that would otherwise be uncertain.
