ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Yoruba People, Turkish Bath, Pierre Bourdieu
15 Feb 2020
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Ritual is religiously directed action, and has certain characteristics: involves action more than belief, uses symbols and formal, extraordinary language and behaviour, repetition, aesthetic elaboration (e. g. costuming) In the film, there was a lot of costuming and sewing, particularly coloured cloth that held meaning: can intensify social bonds in a group, rituals are done as a group for this reason. Anthropologist michael mason describes george"s initiation into santeria in. The film was set in puerto rico. Mason"s description focuses on bodily experience of the ritual: ritual makes transition happen it does things to the body. In this case, it"s washing with herbal water (osain) and soap. * lot of attention paid to the head through physical action in ritual. Habitus: those aspects of culture that are anchored in the bodily practices of individuals, groups (pierre bourdieu: * habitus rituals that we do that display cultural values/structures.
