Emic

Etic

Paradox

Fieldwork

Holistic

Participant Observation

Ethnography

Stages of Ethnography

James Clifford

dealing with conflicting beliefs

Wagner

Wagner's Findings:

Reflexivity

religion defined - E.B. Taylor

religion defined by Durkheim

Sir James G. Frazer - religion defined

Religion Defined: Anthony Wallace

Religion defined: Eller

Religion defined: Clifford Geertz (more recent)

worldview

weltanschauung

religion defined: post-modern trend

Talal Asad

Functions of Religion

practice

prescription

Spiro's 3 orientations within Southeast Asian Buddhism (etic)

Amulets in Thailand

jatukhamrammathep
amulets

reasons jatukhamrammathep
amulets were used (2007)

Malinowski and rituals

Official Discourse: Thai Amulets

Popular discourse: Thai Amulets

Beginnings of Christianity

All Christians believe

Divisions within Christianity

1517 Luther, protestant reformation

Friends of God

Megachurches

Anthropology and Christianity

Sacred Narratives

Myth

Myth as Charter

Myth and Psych: Frued

Myth and Psych: Jung

Modern study of myth

Myth and Worldview

Symbol

Multivocal Symbols

Soma

suhag

Urmilaji

High Caste Perspective

Kangra

Widows in Indian Culture

Myth of Sunna the Washerwoman

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Geertz

Ethos

Geertz: Central feature of all religions

meaning and symbols

Azande

Java

Wajang

Goal of Javanese Puppet Shows

Geertz: Humans

Geertz: religion

Serpent Handling Belief (Pentecostal)

serpent

Virgin of Guadeloupe (master symbol)

Virgin of Guadeloupe Miracle

Tonantzin

Tepeyac

syncretism

Eric Wolfe: Virgin of Guadeloupe

mestizos

Virgin to mestizos

Independence movement

Ritual

secular ritual

types of rituals: Rights of passage

rights of intensification

calandrical rituals

Rosaldo: rituals

Functions of Ritual: Malinowski

Geertz: Ritual

Arnold Van Gennep: The rights of passage

Structure of Rights of Passage

Victor Turner

communitas

rights of Ndemdu in Zambia

Turner: Sacra

Incwala

lunar symbolism

Santeria

Santeria Initiation

Osain

Santeria Godparents

Important body part in Santeria Initiation

aleyo

Performance theory

Habitus

Initiation in Santeria Puerto Rico

Morrocco Women's Henna Tattoo

Henna

day of the bath

Significance of Blood for Moroccan Women

Baraka

Wedding in Morocco

Baraka of Henna

Marriage in Morrocco

Shango