ANTB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecori, System On A Chip
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Tells us about society/cult. norms and practices: how spec. items and seating patterns in meals interact. In light of communism there was a try to elim. religion b/ didn"t succeed in elim. ancestor worship. Arguing: activity isn"t a/b the dead b/ about the living - reaffirming relat"s w/ the living. Vast majority of time and expenses are spent prep. and buying foot although food isn"t always involved. Senior clan members closest to alter; table of old w. , adults and kids (sep. ); everyone participates so it b/comes engraved in people that this is what you do, participating is something that becomes quite natural. Whether tradit. in village or city dwellers behave in same ways; people in cities come back to support the feast (and bring food and money to support this feast) : recog. kin from father and mother side; worship grandmother and grandfather for example.
