AR101 Lecture 18: Mimetic Theory
1 Feb 2018
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Changing perspectives on violence during the anatolian neolithic. Boundary zone between this and next world. Metaphysical desire (innate need to be like other people, belong, can trigger emotions like competition, envy, jealousy to the extent that you want to be the other person) Pattern of repetition traced to the very foundation/origins of human culture. Early cult in anatolia: gobekli tepe (12000 years) Earlier than the pyramids, first evidence of deities, rituals. Stones are covered with animal figures (boar, birds, etc. ) (representative of nature) An afflicted individual, socially and /or physically. Mellaart finds a wealth of art & symbolism in the form of murals, installations (wild bull heads with horns), reliefs & figurines. Men hunting wild animals such as aurochs (giant prehistoric bulls) The (cid:862)leopard quee(cid:374)(cid:863) prompted mellaart to suggest that the people of catalhoyuk worshipped a dominate female deity, were a matriarchal female-dominated society. Exposed on platforms to carrion- feeders (clean bodies: multiple heads sometimes found (head is significant?)
