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== Rappaport (iii): Why Ritual? Why Religion? == | == Rappaport (iii): Why Ritual? Why Religion? == | ||
Revision as of 02:05, 10 September 2007
ANTH 245: Lecture for SEPT 10 2007
SESSION 1
Business
- Readings to be posted on Blackboard
- Blogging can take place after the class
Review of Bateson
- Patterns
- Levels
- Social Context
- Relationships exist at a "wider" level
- The social context of a message is part of the code
- e.g. Who is saying this? Can they be trusted?
- Confers validity to the message
- "Purposive Mind" and "Greater Mind"
- The unconscious mind is the location of "codes"
- Purposive Mind perceives messages
- The unconscious mind is the location of "codes"
The unconscious mind connects the "purposive mind" to the Greater Mind
The purposeive mind normally perceives "arcs" within wider circuits
Communication and schismogenesis
The social context
Mutual influence
Greater Mind
Arcs and Circuits
