ANTH 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rational Point, Nuclear Warfare, God Speaks
16 May 2018
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The study of religion is one of the most important subfields of anthropology because
if we can’t understand a religion we cant understand a culture. When
anthropologists talk bout myth they are not referring to superstition or a
misunderstanding of reality.
1. What are Myths? The way the deepest values of a religion are transmitted.
The reason why you should believe in that religion and pass it on. They are a
transmission process in which culturally, values are going to be passed, values
that are within this religion are expressed. Cultural expression of social values
embedded within RELIGION.
2. Besides stories list 3 ways that myths may be transmitted
1. Stories
2. Dance –in traditional cultures, dances are ways of transmitting values.
3. Art- in contemporary cultures we’ve turned art into part of our economic
system. In traditional cultures, art is connected to religion.
4. Music- in contemporary culture art is entertainment but
3. Explain the important of the Primeval Reality
Myths come from the primeval reality. This reality is where God gives us the values
that are embedded within these myths. That reality in which all values originate.
4. What do we mean when we say that myths fuse time? MYTHS FUSE TIME.
Time and change become irrelevant, what is important Is to believe in the
values expressed by Myth. It means it makes time and change unimportant.
Don’t worry about what happens here hold on to those values that are part of
your religion.
5. Give an example of American secular myth. All governments create myths.
Why you should follow the law and do what you’re told. As long as this
document remains the basis for our belief in being an American, then we will
get through this and survive.
6. What are the 3 stages of a Flood Myth? When anthropologists looked at these
things they noticed they are some of the oldest types of myths that we have.
They trace back to the beginning and are found throughout the world and in
every culture. From a rational point of view, while humans have been on the
planet, there has never been a global flood.
1 . Sin –violating the values passed down by God.
2. Punishment
3. Renewal
Pat Robertson introduces the idea of the flood myth. He argues that
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The study of religion is one of the most important subfields of anthropology because if we can"t understand a religion we cant understand a culture. The way the deepest values of a religion are transmitted. The reason why you should believe in that religion and pass it on. They are a transmission process in which culturally, values are going to be passed, values that are within this religion are expressed. In traditional cultures, art is connected to religion: music- in contemporary culture art is entertainment but, stories, explain the important of the primeval reality. This reality is where god gives us the values that are embedded within these myths. Time and change become irrelevant, what is important is to believe in the values expressed by myth. Don"t worry about what happens here hold on to those values that are part of. Why you should follow the law and do what you"re told.
