ANT-2215 Lecture 14: Exam 3 study guide

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Turner: symbolic and process (ritual) anthropology; liminality and communitas. Sheep raid can"t know what it is without knowing what it is to steal a sheep. If you don"t get symbols you miss most of everything. Rosaldo: emotion; headhunting; sometimes things don"t have meaning (versus. Webs of significance) says strauss to structuralized and webs of significance are out there but it has a flaw (headhunters just do); gives own personal story about his wife. Ethnographer has a position and can bring their own life experience into it and creative intentions. Structural anthropology: study of structure in human society. Noble savage- rosseau began to think about civilized world and how were beginning to be worse off than before. Perhaps there is something that enlightened people can learn from natives. Rites of passage: what our life is structured by. Drivers license (tell us what we"re doing in certain moments in life) Liminality: quality of disorientation in a transition period.

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