ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Telepathy, Vitebsky Railway Station, Piers Vitebsky
15 Feb 2020
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Religious specialist: one who devotes themselves to a particular branch of religion or a religious system religious specialists. Early anthropologists like durkheim, malinowski, and frazer didn"t single out. Two representative specialists: associated with the functioning of the regularly organized, 1. Prophet: given authority to produce discontinuity, granted because of a personal call to be a prophet founded on supernatural revelation and personal charisma. Charisma: weather, health and illness, divination, telepathy: extraordinary powers, either ascribed or achieved, can achieve ecstatic states the precondition for producing effects on. Germ of extraordinary power already invested in them: can be inherent, produced artificially, merited, but prophet must have some. When anthropologists came around to theorizing about religious specialists, they. Priests societies benefit whole community cultural objects and activities: communicates with transhuman/supernatural being through ritual involving, calendrical or cyclical common ceremonies or rituals are performed that.
