ANT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Schizophrenia, Arnold Van Gennep, Last Meal
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Geography: mountains in middle separated by river valleys. Men and women did not walk on the same paths. Inside houses there were bamboo barriers between men and women"s sides. Women were said to taint men, especially around there menstrual cycle. A physical substance coming from a older man that younger men ingest on the journey of becoming a man. He is feed sweet potatoes, which is a woman"s food. Rituals to mark life stages: separation - first stage, liminality - neither within realm but not in the next realm. Being in between: aggregated - getting a new label. Communitas in which all members of a community are equal allowing them to share a common experience, usually through a rite of passage. Women push children close to the fire to represent how evil they are. Spit the possum liver the farthest to win. Deborah tannen language and gender; came up with report vs rapport.
