RELS 3714 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Alan Dundes
23 Sep 2016
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Sumo wrestlers not allowed to eat beef: can eat chicken. Wrap up from last time: frazer suggests: a. i. Through sympathy fertility of humans linked with their crops a. i. 1. Relates to golden bough: as king grows old, vigor declines a. ii. 1. Can no longer invigorate nature so crops begin to fail a. iii. King must be killed when old so the spirit within him can animate a younger man"s body: what"s frazer"s point, other than that primitive survivals exist in civilized religion? b. i. Rituals of death and rebirth are a kind of imitative magic designed to reinvigorate nature: perhaps frazer"s sympathetic magic are just visualization techniques c. i. Dundes discussion: more of folk lore than anthropology a. i. Did both: attempt to make freud"s ideas more applicable: b. i. Infant is to parent as human is to deity b. ii. Relationship between kids and parents is not the same in every culture b. ii. 1.
