AN101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Gennep, Orthopraxy, Farouk Of Egypt
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An101 chapter 8: play, art, myth, and ritual. Children playing family were members of a culture where polygyny is practice and where adult sons ay live in separate quarters in a family compound. Children at play tell us a lot about how play is culturally defined and defining. Children"s play reflects changing realities in which they live emerging new realities of culture. Art: play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation. Myth: representative story that embodies a culture"s assumptions about the way society, or world in general, must operate. Ritual: repetitive social practice set off from everyday routine and composed of a sequence of symbolic activities that adhere to a culturally defined ritual schema and are closely connected to a specific set of ideas central to the culture. These 4 elements interplay the openness and creativity with rules and constraints enabling people to produce powerful and moving phenomena.
