ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Group Cohesiveness, Zande People, Secularism
30 Mar 2017
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Unquestioned assumptions about how the world works. Stories that recount how various aspects of the world came to be the way they are (i. e. beginning and ending of the natural world, social world or cosmos) Religious worldview of a people, including origin and other moral stories, the pantheon of deities that exist, and their relationship to the spirit realm. People"s perceptions, knowledge, and behavior regarding relationships between invisible and material worlds. Form of social organization and shared meaning based on a system of symbols. Mana: impersonal force; sacred power in places, people, or objects. Use of supernatural techniques to accomplish specific aims. Magic and witchcraft in 16 th century england. Outside the world of formal religion, but widely known and helped people cope with anxieties. Witchcraft is the most common explanation for misfortune: crop disease, spoiled hunt, illness and death. Witchcraft is caused by something invisible inside a person.
