PSCI 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liminality, Koyukon, Shame Society
11 Mar 2016
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Choice does not arise from cultures of individualism but cultures of surplus, surplus economies. You cannot understand honor and shame until you understand infants and adults. Had human form, lived in a human society, spoke human language. Some died and were transformed into animal or plant beings that inhabit koyukon conutry (left a residue of human qualities and personality traits in the creatures. Children grapple with the quest for desire by means of identity construcction. Identity attaches to the subject in the world. We are always who we are to ourselves but we project ourselves into the world by constructing multiple identities . Identity refers to our projections of ourselves symbollically into the world depending on the demands. Liminality conformation, weddingsetc events in our lives that we mark, change across cultures. Deaht, weddingsetc tend to become part of cultural rituals indicative of cultural values and what the culture is.
