ANTH 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Douglas, Orthopraxy, Oedipus Complex
21 Nov 2017
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Epistemology: the study of knowledge or the theory of the scope, and nature of knowledge: religious beliefs, or beliefs and practices connected to the supernatural and natural worlds are also part of cultural systems and knowledge. Ideas and practices that postulate reality beyond that which is immedicably available to the senses brown 2002, 5. Have to be flexible to these social beliefs. How those ideas and how they come alive in peoples everyday lives religious experts or specialists religious organizations and institutions rituals community of believers local cultures foundational thinkers. Fetish: when supernatural power is attributed to an object (that is normally profane) Gmelch, fetish on baseball, lucky gloves, superstitions. Purity is used to create boundaries and order. Polluting substances are symbolically dangerous to the social order and moral values of a society: polluting substances (people/things/actions) must be controlled through special rites and practices to maintain purity creates social boundaries and order. Dietary, social relationships, tattoos when taboos are broken.
