{"id":1970,"date":"2020-10-29T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2020-10-29T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T12:12:31","slug":"religion-magic-and-worldview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/29\/religion-magic-and-worldview-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion, Magic and Worldview"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">Religion, Magic and Worldview<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\u201cThe Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits in Senegal\u201d by Rachel Mueller<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\u201cBaseball Magic\u201d by George Gmelch<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\u201cRun for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage\u201d by Jill Dubitsch<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: 28px; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\u201cBody Ritual Among the Nacirema\u201d by Horace Miner<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #001847; font-family: Arimo, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; background-color: #f0f4ff;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">#31: Body Ritual among the Nacirema (Horace Miner)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What are a few adjectives you\u2019d use to describe the Nacirema? Why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Explain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">The Nacirema\u2026like you\/ NOT like you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What are some of the beliefs and body rituals of the Nacirema?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">The most fundamental belief underlying the whole system?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Most fundamental belief underlying the whole system\u2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cThe human body is ugly and its natural tendency is to debility and disease.\u201d (288)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Ways to avert and cope are through ritual and ceremonies\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Every home has a shrine dedicated to this purpose\u2026 but not for families\u2026.private and secret individual ceremonies and rituals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Shrines and charm boxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What are some of the body rituals of the Nacirema?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Body rituals among the Nacirema<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Mouth \u2013rites (bundles of hog hairs into the mouth)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Holy mouth men<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Medicine men<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Men-scrape and lacerate the skin on their face<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Women bake their heads in ovens<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">How do these help people function?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What is the latipso, and for what is it used?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cSome natives are taken here never to recover\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Children resist going here necause that is where you go to die\u201d (290)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What do you think the psychological functions of Nacireman body ritual are?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Who ARE the Nacirema?<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">The author describes this poorly understood people<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cThey are a North American group living between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and the Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and the Arawak of ther Antilles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201ca highly developed marked economy\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cA North American group living between the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles.\u201d (288)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Who are the Nacirema, and why do you think Miner wrote this article?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cBody Ritual among the Nacirema\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Offers a satirical view of American culture<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Addresses assumptions about \u201cprimitive\u201d\/ \u201cadvanced\u201d societies<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Magic and superstition in an modern,<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">industrialized society<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Cultural relativity<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Ethnocentrism<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Miner wrote this classic essay in 1958\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">2018\u2026.changes?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">#29: Baseball magic (George Gmelch)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">This essay begins with a story about Dennis Grossini, a former pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Why?<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Why does the author (George Gmelch) discuss Bronislaw Malinowski\u2019s theories on magic?<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Lagoon<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Open sea fishing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">According to Gmelch, what is magic<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">and why do people practice it?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cBy magic, anthropologists refer to practices (267)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Rituals<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Taboos<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Fetishes<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">(good luck charms)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What parts of baseball are most likely to lead to magical practice? Why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Illustrate these concepts using examples from this article.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">How does the risk and uncertainty of pitching and hitting affect players?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">How do they try to control the outcome of their performance?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Uncertainty and Magic<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Bronislaw Malinowski<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">B.F. Skinner<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">How are their theories of magic alike and different? What is each designed to explain?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Uncertainty and Magic<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Bronislaw Malinowski<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Anthropologist<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Helps us understand how baseball players respond to uncertainty\/ anxiety<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Belief in having control increases confidence<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">B.F. Skinner<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Behavioral psychologist<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Sheds light on why personal rituals get established in the first place; linking particular behavior with a reward<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Stuart Vyse adds: \u201cHumans like Skinner\u2019s pigeons tend to repeat any behavior that is coincident with success\u201d (274) Baseball players unlike pigeons are quicker to change rituals once they no longer seem to work (274)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">In a footnote, Gmelch notes some research of interest regarding cross-cultural comparisons between American and Japanese baseball players<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Americans in general more superstitious than Japanese players<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">American players believed their superstitions, routines and rituals aided individual performance<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Japanese players believed their superstitions aided team performance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Can you think of other areas in the U.S. where magic is practiced?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Do the same theories in this article account for these examples too?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Why do you think Gmelch wrote this article?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Gmelch, who in the 1960s played pro baseball for the Detroit Tigers<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">took an Anthropology course on \u201cReligion, Magic and Witchcraft\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Listened to professor lecturing on magic and rituals of the Trobriand Islanders\u2026where it occurred to him that what these so-called \u201cprimitive\u201d people did wasn\u2019t all that different from what he and his teammates did for luck and confidence in the ballpark (267)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cBaseball Magic\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Describes the use of magic by baseball players<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Illustrates nature of magic, fetishes, taboo, and ritual<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Ties the use of magic to anxiety related to uncertainty<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Malinowski (stress reduction, uncertainty)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">B. F. Skinner to show magic&#8217;s relationship to personal rituals nature of cause and effect<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Intro \u2026.\u201cPeople seem most content<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">when they are confident about themselves and the world around them.\u201d (254)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Uncertainty breeds anxiety\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cFrom time to time the unexpected or the contradictory intervenes to shake peoples\u2019 assurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Crops fail<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">A woman\u2019s husband runs off with another woman<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Death, natural disaster, countless other forms of adversity strike\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Magic, one way to cope with uncertainty<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Helps people function<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">#28: The Worst Lover: Boyfriend Spirits on Senegal (Rachel Mueller)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Senegal shaped by two historical influences:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">1000 -Muslims arrived w\/ Sufi Islam<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Prayer mats. head coverings,<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">marabouts (islamic holy men)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">2)1800s- French colonization<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">French language &amp; gov\u2019t<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">French &amp; Wolof<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Key to the story<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Rab\u2026..<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Faru rab<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Teranga<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Spirit Possession and Rab<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Laye Fatou\u2019s story?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Lebou religion<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What attracts rab spirits?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">In what ways do rab resemble humans?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Essay\u2026negative effects of the faru rab on women<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Demonstrates steps women must take to reject these spirits, including the dramatic ndepp ritual<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Marabout (healer)\/ Ndepp (public ritual)\/ Ndeppkat (priestess)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Divination<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Sacrifice<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Ndepp ceremony<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Ways of Communicating with the Supernatural World<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Spirit possession occurs when a supernatural being enters an individual and controls that person&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Onlookers can then communicate with the spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Sacrifice is the act of giving up something to influence supernatural beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Prayer is a petition directed at a supernatural being.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Can boyfriend spirits co-exist with Islam?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cRab\u201d in Senegalese Society<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What prognosis does Mueller provide for the survival of rab in changing Senegalese society?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">L\u00e9bou people of Senegal claim to live among rab spirits alongside devout worship of Islam<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Explains how rab fits into both Islam and Senegal<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Historic religion<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Archaic religion<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Syncretism<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Medical pluralism (rab healers * western trained doctors)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Syncretism<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Creative blending of indigenous and foreign beliefs and practices into new cultural forms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">EG: Vodou (divine spirit) is an example of a syncretic religion as it combines both Christian and African belief systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Divination<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">is the use of supernatural force associated with selected material objects to learn answers to particular questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Example: The Bhils of India predict the abundance of summer rainfall by watching where a bird lands when it is released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">If it settles on something green, rain will be plentiful; if it settles on brown, the year will be dry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\u201cSigns\u201d\u2026omens<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Divination, omens, signs<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">A method to prepare for the unknown and\/or not yet present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Divination- a magical procedure for determining the cause of a particular event, such as illness, or foretelling the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Do we practice this in our society?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Nechung Oracle Tibet<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Divination<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Palm readings<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Tarot readings<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">I Ching<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Dreams<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">#30: Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage (Jill Dubisch)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What is this essay about?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What kind of people started the Run for the Wall?<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage (st. 1989)<\/p>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Describes a yearly 10 day pilgrimage from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. by motorcyclists, many of whom are veterans of the Vietnam War (arr Memorial Day Weekend)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">What does Dubisch mean by<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">the term \u201critual\u201d?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">a pilgrimage?<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<div style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Key terms<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Ritual: \u201ca patterned, repetitive, symbolic enactment of cultural belief or value\u201d (279)<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">The primary purpose of a ritual is \u201ctransformation\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Rituals are often performed to mark important occasions times, transitions<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Easter, Passover,etc<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px; font-size: unset;\">Often think of them as \u201ctraditional\u201d being transmitted generation to generation \u2013 but the fact is that they an ongoing human activity are need to be recreated every time they 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