ANTH 208 Lecture 15: Anth. 208 Week Fifteen Notes
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How pigs are used in reciprocal relationships of gift-giving for social prestige. Reliance on pigs in terms of transactions, both give a holistic perspective of this culture. Prestation, benefits but in anthropology more a series/pattern of ritualized reciprocal exchanges that utilize obligation to establish social relations. How we create social relations, the exchange of pigs and other goods among the tsembaga is seen. Pa. once again an example of prestation seen in both. An example of this in in levi-strauss" stuff from 1949 on structuralism: rappaport uses ritual to refer to repeated behaviors that hold some importance and power in the culture. The weight something has in the system vs. just communication and symbol exchange systems, applies to basically everything. Referring to the quantification of the flow of resources, the tangible evidence for the ritual not just the rituals themselves. Basically he"s expanded the definition of ritual to include the practical not just the symbolical.
