Communitas Essays

Self-Assessment Evaluation The self-assessment evaluation signifies some essential traits and strengths whereby, critical understanding of this analysis can adequately improve my capabilities and personality in management skills. However, my present results in self-awareness are unsatisfactory to me, particularly in emotional intelligence. Personally, I am sensitive to issues, but I have learned to maintain my calm (sentiments), more so, when disappointed by an individual or a situation, which may

Huckleberry Finn and Civilization Merriam Webster defines the act of being civilized as being brought “out of a savage, uneducated, or unrefined state,” (Webster) yet within The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck’s interactions with supposedly civilized society depicts civilization as both savage and hypocritical. Although the members of educated society perceive themselves to be sophisticated and refined, whereas the lowest class members are viewed as barbaric, Huck’s encounters with Miss Watson

with along his journey to meet with God but also his internal struggles that he faced along the journey, when coming to peace that he must make an account of his life and face death. The conservative dramaturge, in order to teach and solidify the communitas of viewers has Everyman also deal with the allegorical sacred. On his journey, Everyman meets Death who wanted Everyman to come with him at that very moment; however, Everyman not being ready to go tries to bargain with Death to get more time. Death

traditions and lifestyle of the Amish Church show example of Turner’s ideas of cultural and societal rite of passage, including liminality, communitas, and rituals of status reversal. Liminality is leaving the normal social life and entering a phase where their everyday notion is suspended. Furthermore, liminality is a state of inbetweenness of social status. Communitas, on the contrary, means that people are in a

Performance is an integral aspect of human culture, and is mostly understood or analysed in one of two ways. These are either through the views of Goffman, with his symbolic interactionist interpretation of every-day performance or through those of Bauman’s interpretations of ‘formal’ performance. This essay will be analysing the One Direction boy band concert in South Africa through the perspective and views of Bauman as an example of a performance. Pubic Reflexivity and society’s ability to view

Victor Witter Turner (May 28, 1920 – December 18, 1983) was a British anthropologist who studied rituals and social change and was famous for developing the concept of "liminality," first introduced by Arnold van Gennep, and for coining the term "communitas." Victor Turner in his book, From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Serious ness of Play (1982), presents his personal journey of discovery from traditional anthropological studies of ritual performance to his curiosity in modern theatre, particularly

play within Everyman forces the communitas to see themselves in a mirror. All in an effort to force the communitas to look at themselves in a way to see if they are following the traditional ideals of the conservative Christian way of life. The dramaturge selected the demonic characters as a way of presenting to the communitas that demonic characters fill their day-to-day lives. Through the dramatic use of dark play within Everyman the dramaturge can teach the communitas a lesson. The dramaturge

Everyman is forced into the sacred arms of both Death and Angel throughout his journey. However, Everyman is also faced with several demonic characters throughout the play, all of whom he at one time called his friend. These friends showed Everyman who they really were in his time of greatest need. Along with dealing with the sacred Death and Angel, Everyman had to also encounter demonic characters as all do throughout their lives, portraying performing objects. Thus, making him more relatable to

and going into an English school 200 km away from everything you are used to, can be very challenging. I will be making references to the articles by Charles-Arnold Van Gennep, Victor Turner and on Rites of passage and Transitions, Liminality and Communitas and the Venda girl’s initiation. According to Van Gennep there are a lot similarities between these ritual rites of passages, this involves a stage of separation from everyday life, a liminal stage of “transition” from one social status to the

To begin with Everyman deals with the structure of the medieval Christian religious ritual. Everyman takes a psychomachic journey from the living world to meet with God on his day of reckoning. Medieval Christian’s had a standard set of performances they engaged in before their own day of reckoning, they needed to “show” their compliance with the main Christian rituals. God commands the Messenger to Everyman which portrays God as the powerful being and the Messenger as the supporting character in

Marissa Dimitrion 28 September 2017 ANTH 372 Tok Thompson China’s Mid-Autumn Festival The ancient Chinese myth of Huo Yi and Chang E made its way across the vast provinces and changing terrains of China, to a modern era in which it manifests itself as the Mid-Autumn Festival, aka the Moon Festival. The cosmogonic myth of the moon resonated amongst individuals through time, and with China’s early development of distant travel and written language it not only continued but it surpassed Chinese borders

receive my high school diploma at the same time as my associates degree, rather than receiving it before. This sets me apart from other college students who have completed high school before beginning college. Consequently, I experience the concept of communitas, as Victor Turner called it, with other Running Start students as we are all equal and form a bond because of

In The Archeology of Ritual by Edward Swenson, it is noted that there is an archaeological deposits of ritual nature in “interpret[ing] power relations, struggles over identity, social transformation, experiences of place and time, and cultural constructions of ecology, community, and personhood” (Swenson 2015:330). It is seen as paradoxical to view ritual as social control as it is an old view that ritual only reflects and authorize sociopolitical orders, as ritual is now connected to social, cognitive

Performance of gender in everyday life If we consider Judith Butler’s theory of performativity it can be seen how gender performance in everyday life contributes to a gender hexis. To understand how cultural roles are embedded into physicality we need to consider Freud’s understanding of socialization as discussed in Civilisation and its discontents. The id/ego become micro versions of macro ideals and expectations. The internalisation of external codes for contact can only happen through interaction

In this modern world, in order to complete tasks and fulfill jobs, most of the population relies on communication and the necessity of electronics to connect with others around the world. Interaction with these electronics has brought to life new implication in the word community, originally thought of as all the people within a geographical region, that has broadened to include countless new societies. Technology has greatly enlarged mankind's communication abilities by promoting new connections

Marie d’Oignies’ gift of tears, causes a crisis between her and the parish priest who is present for her episode of extreme sobs and cries. The crisis occurs when the priest asks her to restrain her tears during mass. According to the text he, “exhorted her with honey-tongued rebukes to pray in silence and to restrain her tears” ( Petroff 179). However, a significant element of Marie’s performance is that she can not control these tears because they are divinely inspired. According to Jacques de

According to Victor and Edith Turner, a liminoid pilgrimage is a “[rite] of transition marked by three phases: separation, limen or margin, and aggregation” (p. 2). In Stephen Sondheim's Into The Woods, all of the characters go to the woods and take part in those same three phases outlined by the Turners. They learn lessons on their journey and come out as changed people that barely resemble the characters in the traditional stories. In this way, Into The Woods is the musical liminoid pilgrimage

I want to investigate how using Steven Feld’s theory of acoustemology can enable the development of a fieldwork project that focuses on how and why women occupy female toilets in clubs, and if we can discern through listening if there is a temporary suspension of order through the performance of particular behaviours that create an intersubjective identity affirmation. I will be exploring how listening can open up an understanding of the inclusive ‘five-minute communities’ that are built within the

Super Bowl Viewing & Analysis Paper: The Super Bowl’s Pressured Audience & the FoMO This year’s Super Bowl seemed to largely lack the flair of last year’s (except in the case of fans’ post game celebrations), but the entirety of the broadcast still provided a variety of explanations as to why the game continues to be so popular. Super Bowl LII, like many that predated it, was yet another example of how willing Americans are to halt usually neverending discourse on a wide range of topics (especially