ANTH 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Lorenz Von Stein, Liminality
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Form of collective action undertaken by a group of individuals or organizations that expresses the need for change. Goals structure on challenging structural processes, socio-cultural systems or political systems. Symbolic anthropology - model for understanding cultural importance of social movements. Believe people shape their patterns of behavior and provide meaning to their experiences based on their social context. Meanings of signs and symbols reflect social reality. Analyze how people give meaning to their reality and how reality is expressed by cultural symbols. Life stages - delineated by rituals and rites of passage; move from one phase of life to another. Liminality - anti-structural stage between first and second stages in a rite of passage. Time of freedom from rules and norms that structure normal life. Egalitarian space characterized by a weakening, unsettling, or reversal of the structural relations organized in terms of caste, class ranks, or other institutionalized forms.
