ANT 360

Habitus - mauss + bourdieu mention

• bodies are embodiments of culture

• techniques of the body that are associated with religious practices

communitas

• 1. puberty

• 2. wedding

• separation

  • 1. cutting hair

  • 2. separate for a while (being ritually adorned)

• liminality (between states of being)

  • 1. in the hut

  • 2. during the ceremony

• reincorporation/reaggregation

  • 1. in a new state of being/return to community

  • 2. are married, identity shift

• produced in that liminality

time and space

• time

  • death

  • coming of age

  • ritual

  • history

  • future

• space

  • pilgrimmage

  • holy space

  • materiality

• both

  • memory

victor tunrer

• edith turner typed up dissertation, victor got most credit (rip)

structural functionalism

• cultural anthropology

• maintaining stasis in a culture via systems