ANTC31H3 Lecture : Antc31-January 25.docx
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Last week we looked at the basic structure of the ritual: liminality, aggregation, separation. The work of ritual according to gennep and turner was to produce social order. While going through that stages we reproduce people in new position and in doing that you take on social responsibilities and obligations that reproduces social order whether it is egalitarian or hierarchical. Ritual is as important as words or as dogma or as injunction. Ritual in some ways accomplishes behaviour in really a quick way. It does the action that all the preaching in the world cannot accomplish. Because when ritual produces social order it is not always the same one. When you think about it teaching and religious orders grew out of medieval times. In medieval times both religious and teaching orders assume hierarchy. It is either a priestly hierarchy or university one based on knowledge.