KS400 Lecture 2: KS 400J - Lesson 2
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Sometimes they go according to plan or do not. Food becomes a major language of tradition, is a mode of transferring religion. Though the entirety of the community cannot be known, the image works through micro level interactions, particularly through familial and educational influence, and ideas of the self. Exerts real pressures and demands, and may not always feel voluntary. Imagined communities denote inclusions, often in contrast to exclusions . It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. Institutional completeness all our institutional needs being met. This comes from the community"s access to food, water etc. Ritual = activity that is repeated with a desired outcome with felicitous and infelicities. Sometimes food is the point of the ritual but is usually the symbol. Altars: focal points for sacrifices/offerings and ritual worship.
