ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Incwala, Arnold Van Gennep, Binary Opposition
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Claud-levi strauss continued language and words are given meaning by a series of differences. Levi-strauss loved language because he was interested about how groups and individuals relate. A system of ordering society in opposition to others. Looking at culture in order to understand the human mind operates. How does culture contain within it the way the human mind works. We create culture out of nature and we do it through binary opposition if all cultures are products of the human brain, then there must be commonality within them all. Getting at the essence of the human mind looking at the unconscious structures of culture. Ritual and communitous, liminality, rights of passage: victor turner. Tried to further durkheims idea for religion being the way people learn and experience their society. Durkheim believes that society worships and reproduces itself through symbols, within the context that religion is structured in society. Turner worked mostly in what now is the zimbabwe.
