ANTH 004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Teaching Stories, Puberty, Bogeyman
26 Jun 2020
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Humorous stories of people with ordinary power. Often have animals that are really just stand-ins for people. Red riding hood, cinderella, three little pigs, etc. Brothers grimm linguistics collected folktales and made them popular. Forest of northern america (lower ontario and quebec region) Usually need special tools to kill them. Seems to be a story that will tell people how to behave- don"t do this or this will happen to you boogeyman story . Ritual (professor gave example of coffee being like a ritual in canadian society) Victor turner: religion in action, repeated- has a pattern (identifiable, religion rituals -> supernatural involved, secular rituals -> no supernatural, collective meanings, values. Symbols symbol based (one thing that stands for another) Maisin production of tapa has some sort of spiritual element. Rituals through which you compel the supernatural to work/behave in certain ways. Law of contagion law of similarity image magic (imitative) Law of sympathy similar things affect each other.
