Copper Age: Ritual Practices

 

 REVIEW

The Florida of the Inca (Page 433) 

 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Florida_of_the_Inca/o11AZeV4pwEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=procession

Emergence of a syncretic form of worshipping the cross brought by the Spaniard, but by the indigenous Curacas of the peninsula today called Florida.

 

Timeline 


  • First Hominins Period:  The earliest, dating 7-6 million years ago.
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  • Early Hominins Period: From 2.7 - 1.5 million years ago.
  • Paleolithic Period: Roughly from 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 B.C.
  • Neolithic Period: From around 4300 BC down to 2000 BC

Indigenous Caribbean 1492 AD (Spider web idea)

Syncretic Caribbean  2022 AD (Spider web idea)

  •  Copper or Chalcolithic Age: 3500 to 2300 BCE.

 

 

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Unit: Copper Age

Theme: Ritual Practices


Introduction

  The analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. Concepts such as rite of passage and liminality elements of the ritual process.

 

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Learning Objectives

 

  •  Understand the importance of recovering ritual practices in modern times
  •  Explain the function of rituals
  • Gather an awareness of terms such as rite of passage and liminality
  • Experience the structuring of a ritual by adding the rite of passage and the liminal component to the previous ritual performed in class.

 

III

Main Lesson

 

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Modern Rituals

 

 

Question 1

After watching this video, answer the following question:

Why is it important to recover the practice of rituals in modern times?

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Question 2

 What do rituals do?

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The Ritual Process


LINK

Rite of Passage / Victor Turner 

(Page 94)


Question 3

Define the following terms:

Rite of passage

Liminality


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IV

A Note to Remember 

Victor Witter Turner was a British cultural anthropologist best known for his work on symbols, rituals, and rites of passage. His work, along with that of Clifford Geertz and others, is often referred to as symbolic and interpretive anthropology.

 

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Case Study

 This video covers the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, and his concept of rites of passage. This series was created Feb - June 2014.

 


 

VI

Activity

Re- structure the ritual your group performed last class by adding the rite of passage and the liminal component to the previous ritual performed in class.

 


VII

Journaling

 

VIII

Glossary

threshold: the dividing line, the limen

ritual: an event that has three stages: separation, transition, aggregation

communitas: Within liminality, the bonding experience or sense of community developed during the transition. 

syncretism: Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought. Syncretism involves the merging or assimilation of several originally discrete traditions.(1)

 

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Sources

1. "syncretism". Dictionary.com Unabridged (Online). n.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_House_Webster%27s_Unabridged_Dictionary

2. De la Vega, Garcilaso (1980). The Florida of the Inca.  University of Texas Press 

3. Turner, Victor (2011). The Ritual Process. Aldine Transaction



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Students' Work 
 
 

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