ANT 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gettysburg Address
Document Summary
Procedural: stereotypical form from the beginning to the end of the act. Justice prevails : reference the wrestling match. Rituals are moments where participants in the here-and-now come into contact with these more fundamental social and cultural realities and, through their actions within this ritual reality, they are transformed. Rituals are dramatic manifestations of cultural values and ultimate realities. They link the microcosom of the here-and-now of the ritual to the more enduring and essential domain (macrocosom) of intangible cultural values and fundamental realities that transcend people as individuals in the here-and-now. Sacrifice: a greater connection to christianity and the sacrifice of jesus on the cross. Equality: beyond social and ethnic and hierarchy, every individual of the u. s. is affected. Citizens take on the sole identity as an american - unity. A corpus inscriptionum: commentary; description of specific actions or words. An example would be a commentator of a football game.
