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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Arnold van Gennep | Rites of passage rituals divided into three phases |
| Separation, transition, incorporation | Rites of passage stages |
| Robert Hertz | Durkheim student; focused on secondary death rites |
| Robert Hertz | Studied Borneo; end of intermediary period marked by feast confirming soul's arrival in land of ancestors |
| Robert Hertz | Three sides of Hertz's argument: the corpse, the soul, the mourners |
| Robert Hertz | Left and right side arguments |
| Claude Levi-Strauss | Read about Langba; developed theory of ethnoscience and bricolage |
| Victor Turner | Expands rites of passage until hard to describe a ritual that isn't in some sense a rite of passage |
| Victor Turner | Liminal stage requires certain autonomy from ritual; "betwixt and between" |
| Victor Turner | Introduced notion that people's livs revolve around religion, not social organization; that social order is chaotic but religion is source of stability |
| Atoni | Indonesia; House floor plan; everything has a specific order |
| Azande | withcraft; Pritchard studied them; rice barn lead to causality; nothing is random, everything happens because of magic; |
| Balinese | Eastern end of long island of Java in Indonesia; suttee; elaborate funerals |
| Bara | Madagascar; vitality in funerals; funeral orgy; going from vitality to order (vitality of birth to ultimate order of death) |
| Berawan | Borneo; idea of soul; secondary burial; funerals are way of moving into nature through a construction that is cultural |
| Telanak | Berawan for soul |
| Bili | Berawan for spirit; only two forms of existence: humans that have souls and everything else that are spirits |
| Dinka | Souther Sudan; pastoral people; formal political institutions but a "master of spears" - regicide where leader gets power from humility and self-sacrifice |
| Masai | Kenya; moranhood; liminality; recognize life is full of transitions through ceremony; use notion of death and rebirth |
| Shilluk | Souther Sudan; regicide of king if he becomes ill/weak and can't perform his functions; king's potency directly related to fertility of land; has sons in all villages |
| Swazi | South Africa; king have men life in king's palace; festival of incwala |
| body natural/body politic | Connection between the two with different monarchies; for England, there is dominance of body politic over the body natural of the king; for Shilluk, the body natural dominates the body politic |
| bricoleur | Person who fixes anything around the house; fix problem in front of them with whatever they've got; like Langba |
| Collective Representation | cultural values; between the individual and the species lie culture; language and dress code |
| Communitas | From Turner; liminal stage can be pleasant and people choose to become liminal because feeling of community and equality develops; like pilgrims on pilgrimage or at a dinner party; product of anti-structure |
| Cosmology | Science of the origin and development of the universe; example is Atoni because everything is right/left; another example is witchcraft |
| Death songs | Narrate the journey to the land of the dead for Berawan on last night of "great feast"; Bara sing songs also but are about life themes |
| Eschatology | Part of theology concerned with death and the final destiny of soul; Berawan rituals show this woven into funeral; |
| Ethnoscience | All societies have adaptations to the environment they are put in that become a knowledge of the natural world; says all things (magic, science, etc) are way to approach causality; |
| Female man | Atoni guy? |
| Incwala | Kingship ceremony is Swazi culture; festival where there is ritual inversion; king taken out into woods; you are only king because we made you king |
| Langba | Mixed science with magic interchangeably; showed how people know about the environment not because of utility but out of curiosity; uses any type of causality to get results |
| Liminality | Universal notion; life is full of transitions |
| Master of Spears | Dinka leader; ends up buried alive; |
| "moment of horrors" | Merina people; festival of death that resulted in orgy |
| Mugwe | Imenti leader; said to be female king; warrior and ultimate weapon; evil of left hand; crossing of river story; Mugwe came with second group and inferior |
| neolithic revolution | Knowledge of the world must have been used in an applied logic; ethnoscience; primitive people knew more about their environment than anyone could imagine; |
| nulang | Term for Berawan secondary treatment of the corpse; nice part of death ritual; celebration of dead turning into an ancestor; |
| Nyikang | Internal kingship that conquers man; hero who led them in migration to present home and founded the Shilluk kingdom; possesses the bodies of kings and is reincarnated |
| pharaoh | built the pyramids as tombs and then failed to use them; two tombs of king; used pyramids aas big power show like Berawan; show dying is journey |
| Psycho-reductionism | Everyone does things because of similar reasoning |
| Rituals of center | House was ritual center of Atoni culture |
| Shaman | daiyung; if you want to interact with the spiritual world; their power is that their own personal soul can leave the body and travel outside the body; |
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