ANTH 4751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Performativity, Temporality, Cultural Universal
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Open (can be added to) and displaces (can talk about things that are not present) To see the gods and to be seen. Allows you to have a relationship with the god. Bhakti - one of many ways to reach better reincarnation; devotion. Relationship of a hosted guest/reciprocity/emotions are connected to rituals. Darsan images don"t symbolize the gods, they are the gods. Make the abstract and transcendent -> concrete and/or approachable. Establish social solidarity across the world (common symbolism); forms an imagined community. Symbols reminds us of religious values and has potency to do certain things (consecration) Effects affect - causes powerful emotions in people. An anvil of practice on which meaning is forged (and contested) A ritual which facilitates transitions from one social position to the next. Performativity - choose how to embody the social roles we are given. Sense of unity and community with those who have gone through ritual. Prayer as a octal phenomenon in contemporary turkey.
