ANTH 1150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ibibio People, Traditional Witchcraft, Clifford Geertz
23 Nov 2017
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The practice of religion: religion is performative and is acted out through ritual, ceremony and observances, participation may bring a sense of transcendence, security, reassurance and even ecstasy. Supernatural beings and powers: gods and goddesses. Polytheism: belief in several gods and/or goddesses. Pantheon: a collection of gods and goddesses. Whether or not a people recognize gods, goddesses, or both has to do with how men and women relate to each other in everyday life. Generally speaking, cultures that subordinate women to men define the gods in exclusively masculine terms (hera is the consort to zeus: ancestral spirits. A belief in ancestral spirit is is consistent with the wide-spread notion that human beings are comprised of two parts: a body and some kind of vital spirit. Where a belief in spirits exist, these beings are often seen as retaining an active interest and even a membership in society: animism. Animism: a belief in spirit beings thought to animate nature.
