ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: West African Vodun, Forensic Pathology, Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
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Midterm october 18th material and all of reading new textbook blue, nat geo gobekli tepi, addition readings on avenue. Study readings and likely to test on things that she has talked about in class (that is in text). Liminal because they are in the transition stage between not quite dead or alive. Cross-culturally : vampiric entities appear in a variety of cultures. Vampire blaming is often a means of scapegoatism in much the same way that accusations of witchcraft and zombism or zombie keeping function in some cultures to maintain the status quo. Pinpoint the sources of stress, find vampire, and if you kill them you will solve problems. In haiti longstanding tradition of zombies (voodoo culture). Zombies are undead and work as slaves, collect them to work on your fields: romania women accused if they failed to perform traditional women"s roles similar to demographic of witches.