ANTB66H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arnold Van Gennep, Mircea Eliade, Feudalism
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Mircea eliade: chaos, cosmogony, sacred centers creativity. Emilia durkheim: sacred, profane, rites to protect the sacred. Arnold van gennep: limn: latin for threshold, there"s cultural inversion; high becomes low and low becomes high, when you leave the liminal, you cross another threshold. Victor turner and edith turner: archaic society, kin based society, pre-literate society, based on families, more simple; tend to be repeating social units, feudal society, related to manner of lords being in charge. Important is the church: establishes monarchy, lords provide protection for peasants, more complex and a more modern society, more splitting off tasks, structures, diachronic, how structures changes during history, e. g. Buddhist temples: synchronic, happens at the same time, anthropologist write about field work at an ethnographic time. Ellen badone: busy intersection (pilgrimage and tourism, romany, town people, secular and religious concerns, represents synchronic of the 3 days, marquis baroncelli.
