ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Paramount Chief, Liminality, Gennep
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**2 page reflection on an experience you have personally had of liminality and communitas, as. Victor turner defines them in the ritual process nov 1st. Mark transition from one status to another and the social change with it: installation ritual of the paramount chief-elect. Ex: election of the president, inauguration: paramount chief is a member of an original tribe who had once been conquered. Interesting since someone who was a member of the conquered tribe was installing the chief of the conquerors: basic script of the ritual: Separation the construction of a small hut of leaves the (cid:1445)kaffu(cid:1446) (to die: here that the chief elect dies from commoner state and will emerge as a paramount chief. Liminality chief and wife led to hut in rags as if ill, made to crouch in modesty and shame while being washed with medicine. The head man reviles, chastises, vilifies the chief elect.
