ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gennep, Liminality, Second Seminole War
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Social regulation: negative / bad emotions, normative/ everyday: keep each other in check, gender/ class maintenance. Oracles: mediation: not just the injured is involved. The goal: to get things back to normal! Is the witch a conscious agent: contradiction, i am not a witch but others could be, no public discussion of this. Who might be witch: bad-tempered characters are more suspicious. E. p: a student of malinowski immersion in field natives point of view. Questions: how to gender and class influence the accusations of witches/ witchcraft, antisocial remarks are associated with witchcraft, systems to create order, maintain soc hierarchy, the wing, the british rule. Primitive societies also live, like us, with rules and regulations this describes the logic and function of witchcraft as a system. For turner, a healthy society balances the two. The jester (the power of weakness): mocks the king, only he can do this. Part of the structure of medieval court spontaneous.
