visual anthropology coming soon to LACC
still photography submit
excellent
use in presentation

day of silence
for GLBT oppression

denim day rape film
contest
short
make it and submit

worried the iceland volcano will mess up
and airport moratorium
euro and UK travel to coachella

now today
religion

syncretic nature of voodoo and catholicism
western and african cultures colliding in haiti
belief system

religious phenomemen
broken down to symbols
acc to viktor turnerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Turner

symbols rituals and action
symbols are storehouses of information
symbology

def of ritual

ceremony
do not confuse with ritual
what is diff?

lucrezia borgia sarah bradford
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucrezia_Borgia

olivia is reading this.
http://books.google.com/books?id=wohoAAAAMAAJ&q=lucretia+borgia+bradford&dq=lucretia+borgia+bradford&ei=GD_HS-eOMIHMlQTp_cS4Bw&cd=1

eric is reading this
http://books.google.com/books?id=cvwn6JDrTeoC&q=huxley+seeing&dq=huxley+seeing&ei=Qz_HS5q_J4SEkASo_8WqBw&cd=2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley

cool huxley and jung both are july 26 leos!!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

rites of passage
social status change
rite of passage
rituals
rites

separation

separated fm former status
transitional
stage
the liminal----stage of transition
what is up is down
what is down is up


final stage is incorporation
incorporated

into new phase of life in
newly acquired state of life


ritual performances involving manip of symbols that refer to relig beliefs

teacher never set foot in a church until africa

amish documentary
the devil

funeral

burial is the liminal
also the wake

rituals of affliction

eg malevolent spirits
like an illness afflicted

blood rituals
holds information
water holds information
a great conductor

words emotion and energy can affect the molecular structure of water
imagine blood
words very powerful

blood connects to the ancestors
why bushfowl
cheaper than a goat

birthday
rt of passage


chicken dog goat

in nigeria
acc to the type of illness one mightneed a higher animal
a water buffalo

rts of affliction

how do we know that the bad spirit went inside the fowl
a lot of rituals
at anthills

or spiderholes
tarantula holes
analogy based

chicken bath
cleansed with the chicken
so no one can curse you---the beak
then eat the chicken

ritual
then the members of the society
eat it


the chicken absorbed the negativity
heterocylic amines

a few
society of loom

twins ggod material for a healer
mengele

twins in subsaharan africa
mystical ritual immediate to make sure they dont become witches

specialize in epilepsy
seizures
loom
eat chicken
protected
if someone else ate the chicken whoa!

young age a calling
get lost in the forest
then comes back
been with the spirits

healers transfer
david nchinda
son of most pwrful healer in oku
wanted to be an acctant
dad called him back fm university

transfers all healing to you
dad fm deathbed.
we will meet david nchinda
next week

he can recognize
herbs due to visions and his father speaks to him
combines herbs to treat affliction

third type
rites of reversal
halloween
celebrates a rite of reversal
liminal
characterizes the whole thing
death not discussed in our society

other cultures have a relationship with death

halloween our day to celebrate death
what we fear most
classic rite of reversal

in america
we cannot go to neighbors
this is the only day possible
to discuss
they give food

favorite day
dias de los muertos
all saints day

is it a rite of reversal
with the aztec influences
the jubilance is joyful relation w/death
not a rite of reversal to people with a relation with death

but for us yes maybe

western v. indig death view
we are linear they are cyclic
dichotomy

re relation with food
turned over to specialists

indig navaho
dont call professionals
we do it ourselves

blame the french
for meat's euphemization

home birth
mellow empowered
sweeping and doing dishes until
birth
not fearful empowered
water broke they
came in ten minutes
urgency

justifies the staff and hospital machine

induced
you were off by an hour
anatomy question
western v. indig. where do eastern traditions fit????

rep an interesting mix of the two.
pockets of western influence

capital
linear
dominate nature
china?

asia an anomoly
yet say in japan

shinto
hong kong
very modern
yet in touch with traditions
south aerica cent america and africa
extensive field work
not in asia

mardi gras