ANT207H1 Lecture Notes - Granary, Zande People, Animism
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How you see the world, key elements and causing forces. Not just your own idiocratic notion but shared cultural forms, norms and beliefs. Worldview of a group of people shared among them. Death caused by witchcraft is not one persons view but how everyone understands the world. Not a clear cut world view held by everyone. Prodgid tried to get the native view, their motivations and how they interpreted their life. If you believe that mubu exists then everything exists based on that. Your worldview (whats going on in the world, why we do the things we do) that starts the causal force is the link to what we do. If you believe it"s a causal force (ie magic, how you manipulate force), everything else is logical once you accept existence of force in the world that makes things happen. Definition ideas and practices that postulate reality beyond that available to senses .
