Anthropology101 Cognition
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- Levy-Bruhl Theory of Primitive Mentality
- implies that some are more evolved than others
- witchcraft (trad)
- inherent power to harm others by supernatural means:
- witchcraft (anth)
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a closed systema nd effective mechanism of social control;
a strategy of exclusion and breaking down relationships - witchraft libles
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-food lible
-sexual lible
-blood lible - taboo
- something set aside (sacred or profane)
- pollution
- about making a boundary, making clear a situation, etc...
- caste
- heirarchal social system (hereditary) that determines occupation, socialization, where you go, etc..
- language
- how we make the world visible to others
- homo heirarchicus (homo Aequalis)
- (Dumont) same heirarchy/ equality: pure encompasses pollution, not other way around; about encompassment, not opposition.
- Sapir-Wharf's theory
- words we have shape the way we view the world
- Problems with Sapir-Wharf's theory
- just because we can't communicate an idea doesn't mean we can't comprehend it; cause and effect confused- language developed out of need