ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arnold Van Gennep, Kula Ring, Hajj
3 Dec 2016
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Anth 1120: making sense of a changing world. Lecture 6: the cultural construction of identity ii: how do we. Movements formed: communicating and changing identities rites of passage (arnold van gennep) are universal, ex: birthdays, funerals, graduations, birth, baptism, communions, wedding. Life is a process of becoming not being (victor turner: stages of the rites of passage, 1) separation. Physically, psychologically, symbolically taking away from everyday life. All part of the same group: 2) liminality. An in-between phase going through one phase to another. The term teenager where they are in limbo created after the first world war, a western concept. A form of initiation into the new phase of life: 3) reintegration. Communitas- a sense of community and comradery: ex, bathing in the ganges river in india, the hajj. These rites are found universally through different communities and governments.
