ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cargo Cult, Syncretism, Social Change
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Before class in front of campbell hall. Actively produced and reproduced in the present. Charisma= power individual"s hold able to project stability, believability, Great magical value assigned to euroamerican goods. Syncretism- taking traditional religion ideas and mending them with current ideas. Idea that eventually big plane or boat would land with ancestors and with powerful euroamerican goods. Men in circle doing a dance to summon arrival of big plane. Native americans in west as they are oppressed respond with religion upheaval. Join other tribes and danced together for days upon days. Thought if danced enough, problems would be fixed. Would be performed before combat and interaction with white armies. J. stephen lansing (1991) priests and programmers. Balinese society: each social unity has a temple. Grow a lot of rice (agricultural systems terrace) Sawah-- irrigated rice terrace (just a guy) Subak: local organization of irrigators sharing a local infrastructure (community) Have priests that make decisions for the subak.
