ANTHRO 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: General Order, Zande People, Ian Hacking
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From belief to experience: religion as a cultural system. Arbitrary and conventional relation between sign and referent ethnos synthesizing ritual practice worldview moods and motives. Sentiment, tone, quality, moral and aesthetic style, or mood characteristic of life in a particular community. Motivations and moods dispositions, tendencies, capacities, and habits. ~ models of and models for reality ~ Anchors our conception of the overall shape of reality. Shapes the way our emotions are organized and expressed. Max weber: the limits of interpretability. Gertz sees this as fundamental problem that all humans face : something that completely shatters your interpretation of the world. Religions try to show us how to suffer correctly. Ambivalence, ethical paradox, and the problem of evil. Structuralism: something about human mind that is shaping cultural diversity. Law of contradiction: x cannot be simultaneously identical and nonidentical to iself. C(cid:260)iticsqsa(cid:297)qheqisq(cid:617)othe(cid:260)ing(cid:618)qp(cid:260)imiti(cid:290)eqmindsqinqaq(cid:291)a(cid:297)qthatq portrays civilized minds as better in some way. Not just a mere utterance of words.
