ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Collective Effervescence, Liminality
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A patterned, repetitive, and symbolic enactment of a cultural belief or value. A particular cultural strategy of differentiation linked to particular social effects and rooted in a distinctive interplay of a socialized body and the environment it structures. The sacred is a certain kind of relationship with the origin. Difference between ritual and ritualized activity, latter does not a have a particular belief attached to it. Sacred might not be a deity or god, rather anything about ideas about origin and identity. Ritualized activity is a habit, something that keeps repeating. Separating yourself from reality and proceeding to a liminal state. The state of liminality is the state you"re in during a ritual. Brought back to society in your new form. Often the power of the crowd is part of what makes ritual work. They also convey important messages about social values (the ideological pole)
