YC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Baby Boomers, Femininity, Easter Bunny
9 Apr 2018
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Lecture 8: popular culture, consumption and play: part 1- ritual and play. Metaphor of the lost tooth (where does the tooth go?) Did the tooth fairy visit you when you lost your tooth? (what"s your evidence?) Did your receive money for a lost tooth? (how much?) New guinea: tooth is buried with an ancestor. England: tooth is buried in the earth/ fire. Vietnam: tossed over the roof if it"s the upper tooth; tossed on the ground if it"s the lower tooth. Spreewald (wendish): parents swallow child"s tooth (mother swallows son"s; father swallows daughter"s) Calling on an object with necessary qualities to impart those same qualities to a child. Cathartic/ therapeutic: lay the loss to rest (bury it) Losing a baby tooth (tangible) is rite of passage. Coincides with leaving home and going to school (separation) Teachers keep charts of children who have lost their teeth.
