SLAVIC 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cognitive Dissonance, Deadalive, Necrophilia
9 Jan 2019
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Cultural categories are basic elements of belief about the world. The monster wouldn"t be able to fit into one of the categories i. ii. Stress is experienced when beliefs, values are challenged: If someone walked in levitating it would be troubling because it"s outside the norm d. Polymorph - takes one form at a time e. Ex: ghost looks like a human but is dead. We have expectations about what a human should be, so differences are salient. Empathy rises the more human like the creature becomes vi. vii. An entity that contradicts a given culture"s ideas about natural order (how the world operates) i. ii. By excessively violating the category boundaries that define the world for the given culture. By acts threatening what the cultures regards as most valuable b. A being (imagined or actual) that upsets a culture"s ideas about the order inherent in the world (how the world normally operates) i. ii.
