ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Bruno Latour, Clifford Geertz, Hermeneutics

• School: UTSG
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT100Y1
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Religion and the real before conceptualization. Religion as a link to the real enchantment. Religion as a link to beyond culture and society. But points outside of culture and society. Religion is often used to justify why things are the way they are. Political and social aspect to talking about religion. Do not define in anthropology that there has to be a god. In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth. 1: now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep . Hard to say if 1, came before 2. The earth was formless and empty almost an image of lancan"s real. God meant for the world to be good. God is making categories when he creates the world. Religion has an intuitive understanding of lancan and symbolic anthropology. Relationship between the real and the reality. Real (unformed, no categories, before language gets organized once we have language.