ANT 3241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Venomous Snake, Holy Piby, Rastafari
Document Summary
Some say the zapatista uprising (chipas, mexico, 1994) was a secular mayan revitalization movement (but with many religious overtones) It may have been rooted in earlier such movements, such as the caste war of the yucatan, or the. First defined by the anthropologist anthony wallace in the 1950s: a deliberate, organized, conscious effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying culture. Characteristics: (often) nativist & nationalist, millenarian & apocalyptic, messianic, reactionary-traditionalist, prophetic (founded by trance-prophet, (often) anti-colonial, syncretistic, caused by deprivation: economic, social, ethical. Increased individual/social stress: steady state, cultural distortion, period of revitalization (substages, new steady state. Period of revitalization: formulation of code, communication of code, organization (through "hysterical conversion", adaptation, cultural transformation ("mazeway resynthesis", routinization (of charisma) Found: pacific melanesian island cultures, post- ww ii period: examples: john frum movement, etc, rituals: used effigies of soldiers and planes to magically compel cargo to return, beliefs: attacked colonial powers for holding back cargo
