ANT-2215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lunda People, Mardi Gras, Tabula Rasa
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What our life is structured by rites of passage. Tell us what we"re doing in certain moments in life. Liminatlity- ambiguous; netither here nor there; stairway example move to get floor to floor, betweixed and betweened; an inbetween state (spring break if it was senior week) Transferring it from dry field to one of humanism and poetics. Zambia tradional socieities; christian pilgraimage; and ritual as theatre. In the separation you lose your former identity. Rites de passage : rites which accompany every change of place, state, social position, and age. The developmental cycle: each individual"s life experience contains alternating exposure to structure and communitias, and to states and transitions. When the structured world falls away and when humanity comes through. (hugging during football games) Ndembu are the southern arm of the lunda people in present-day congo. Highest status in the tribe was senior chief kanongesha. His power limited by and combined with senior headman of mbwela people.
