Anthropology 1025F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Polytheism, Cave Painting
9 Apr 2016
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A set of rituals, raionalized by myth, that mobilizes supernatural powers to achieve or prevent transformaions of state in people and nature. Belief in several gods and/or goddesses (as contrasted with monotheism-belief in one god) A belief in spirit beings thought to animate nature. A belief that the world is animated by impersonal supernatural powers. A sacred narraive explaining how the world came to be in its present form. A part-ime religious specialist who has unique power acquired through his or her iniiaive; such individuals are thought to possess excepional abiliies for dealing with supernatural beings and powers. Rituals, oten religious in nature, marking important stages in the lives of individuals, such as birth, marriage, and death. Religious rituals enacted during a group s real or potenial crisis. In rites of passage, the ritual removal of the individual from society. In rites of passage, a stage where the individual is isolated following separaion and prior to incorporaion into society.
