ANTHRO 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Liminality, Vocab (Song), Cargo Cult
10 Dec 2016
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Religion beliefs and rituals concerned with supernatural beings, powers, and forces. Mana sacred impersonal force in melanesian and polynesian religions. Magic use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims. Ritual behavior that is formal, stylized, repetitive and stereotyped, performed earnestly as a social act; rituals are held at set times and places and have liturgical orders. Rites of passage culturally defined activities associated with the transaction from one place or stage of life to another. Liminality the critically important marginal or in-between phases of a rite of passage. Communitas intense community spirit, a feeling of great social solidarity equality, and togetherness characteristics of people experiences liminality together. Leveling mechanisms customs and social actions that operate to reduce differences in wealth and thus to bring standouts in line with community norms. Shaman a part-time religious practitioner who mediates between ordinary people and supernatural beings and forces.
