SOSA 1100X Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ergot

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1100X
• Professor: Dubois Lindsay

Document Summary

A patterned, repetitive, and symbolic enactment of a cultural belief or value (279: people get killed flowers are brought, candles, teddy bears, etc. (people coming together) Rites of passage: separation, transition, cooperation. To a place of special meaning or power. What makes a pilgrimage to ritual: transformative, liminal, betwixt and between. Run for the wall as an example. Many rituals don"t exactly fit in these categories. Daily rituals: within religions, outside them. In state societies, we have many secular rituals, including (but not only) state rituals. The provision of goods and services to meet biological and social wants (s&m: 136) What are social wants : it is important to think about the economic system as stuff that we need and also stuff that we desire. Technology: women and men have equal rights to their stuff in a. Division of labour: making tools and extracting raw materials, gender division, age division. Unit of production: number of people producing.