ANTH 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Venomous Snake, Ethnocide, Moe Williams
15 Jul 2020
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Churches are separate in a rural environment that takes a while to get to; separation is extended. Woman is speaking in tongues; possessed by the holy ghost (kind of like hypnotism) The people gather together to pray and go into separate trances that involve overheating, lack of water, and constant repetition of prayer that cause a drone to occur. They drink juice that is laced with rat poison (given to everyone over the age of 10) The people dance with poisonous snakes to prove that god is looking after them and that its gods work whether they get bitten or not. After the leader got bitten the people didn"t take him to the hospital; they just went home. If you don"t die from the snake bite, you gain higher prestige. Truth church in calgary also speaks in tongues. People who do not live in an intensive agriculturist societies are more emotionally evolved; ie. you are more kind.
