ANTH 2 Lecture Notes - Santo Daime, Cargo Cult, Creator Deity
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Focus on analytical skills for your projects causality and critical. Islanders" observed that cargo was the source of power of. Rituals based on imitation of white man will bring cargo and material wealth. This relates to our society because not everything we do is. Made airplanes and runways to coax the cargo. We make attempts to influence the outcome & control. If a behavior is rewarded, we will usually repeat the behavior necessarily scientific fate. If it works, don"t stop! and hope for same reward. The highest rise activities (hitting and pitching) have more. We continue despite the lack of empirical relationship or proven causality. Fetishes: charms and supernatural objects believed to embody supernatural power. Syncretism: merging two or more religious traditions and hiding the. A social process that helps to order society, provide beliefs, symbols, and practices of one behind similar attributes of another. Myths about a split between creator deity and humans.
