CMST 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pseudoscience, Wart, Collective Effervescence
20 Sep 2017
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Genesis: cain was very angry and his countenanced fell. Curse of ham: about noah and the first to plant a vineyard and his sons shem. Ham and japheth: noah drank the wine and got drunk and lay uncovered in his tent and. Canaanites: legitimizes the conquest of the canaanite promised land via a mythic racial history, the persistent influenced of the genesis myths has led others to apply the. Curse of ham to other groups that have sought to marginalize (american. Christian legitimization of slavery: pro slavery christians found for slavery in the hebrew, african american were fit for slavery because of an episode of primal dishonour by heir purported ancestor. Dominant binary framework in the story of babel: divine/human divide, specifically centered on attempts by the god(s) to maintain a boundary. God: job described as non-israelite likely arab and feared god and turned away from evil, theodicy.
