ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Collective Effervescence, Arnold Van Gennep, Liminality
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Ritual is a patterned, repetitive, and symbolic enactment of a cultural belief or value. Ritualized activity is a particular cultural strategy of diferentiation linked to particular social efects and rotted in a distinctive interplay of a socialized body of the environment it structures. The sacred is a certain kind of relationship with the origin. Is all ritual linked to the scared: sacred being something pure, sacred is often part of ritual actions. Ie trying to change someone in one"s personal space/life, their ritual would be to pray to a scared god. Rituals: done all the time, doesn"t change, circularity. Has a beginning and an end but it always repeats. Habit: ritualized activities that make our day work. Rites of passage: particular rituals that mark a time of life (birth, marriage, death, etc. , arnold van gennep (coined by) > victor turner (made popular by) Separation: you need to be separate from where you began, deciding to get married.
