ANT 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Religious Organization, Consanguinity, Karl Polanyi
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Balanced - the exchange of goods in one direction and the expectation that goods of equivalent value will be returned within a certain amount of time. He is known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and for his book, the great. Transformation, which showed how the emergence of market-based societies in modern europe was not inevitable but historically contingent. System of beliefs that involves the worship of supernatural forces. Teachings (myths) - things that answer the unknown questions of the world. Supernatural forces (animatism, animism, ancestral spirits, gods/goddesses, other beings) Animatism - types of supernatural forces that are not personified, flows through everything. Animism - certain objects have supernatural forces, and ancestral spirits. Shamanistic - where one being is more powerful than another, they go to the person for healing. Communal - when a person prays to a communal ancestor that they are usually related to by blood.
