ANTHRO 3AC Lecture 8: Lecture 8.2
17 Nov 2020
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Concept used to define role of witchcraft. Helps to understand the causation: witchcraft, mode of thought, mode of behavior. Example from film: witchcraft among the azande. Influences a sense of nutrition and repentance. A key to prevention of intragroup violence: mode of social regulation. The heating up of the substance in the body (black sack) Got substance against will, born with it, can"t prevent. Regulate through law, codes of civility (another mode of regulation: how does the anthropologist discover and investigate, mode of behavior and system of morality. Witchcraft is the socially relevant cause, since it is the only one which allows intervention and determines social behaviour. (25) Impossibility sometimes to prove it because of social hierarchy. Consult the oracle: means to compel behavior. Point is to put witch in good mood / to appease. Public -- idea that things happen publicly. Failure, hatred, greed, lust, spite, jealousy, etc. (non-crimes but represent moral values) Work relations: mode of social regulation.
