Anthropology 3332F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Arnold Van Gennep, Impermanence
2 Mar 2021
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Additional theme for the second half of the course a central paradox at the heart of all human societies and how we might try to understand them. Although they clearly can and do change, worldviews and patterns of social organization tend towards continuity rather than chaos through time. For sociologists/anthropologists undertaking cross-cultural comparison in the late. 19th century, early 20th centuries, this paradox was a central concern. Best known for his work on death as a collective experience. Based on a reading of reports concerning funerary practices around the world. individual represents so much, and that the loss of the individual leaves a great mark in society that must be healed. Death isn"t just the end of a visible body, but rather, it is a problem because that. Rights of passage rituals associated with the transition of individuals from one. Arnold van gennep rights of passage (1909)
