ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Paramount Chief, Liminality, New Rights
17 Nov 2020
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A two-page reflection on an experience you had personally had of liminality and communitas, as. Victor turner defines them in the ritual process due october 25. 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. The individual is an outsider, detached from the group. The construction of a small hut of leaves the kaffu (to die) -- the hut is the place of death. Here that the chief elect dies from commoner state and will emerge as a paramount chief: liminality. Essential to maintaining order in establishing legitimacy of societies" structured positions. The ambiguous characteristics of a ritual subject while he/she is in a state of in-betweenness.
