Largely because defining rituals from an anthropological perspective really gets into semiotics and such. I am now worried that my own perspectives on ritual are too outdated. Idk how to tell though. The jargon in anthropology and social sciences in general can be intimidating.
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I would say that the studies of ritual from the early to mid 20ty century are an unhealthy mix of Western gaze, orientalist, and imperialist/colonialist perspectives. That’s pretty clear from the outset.
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But I guess I don’t know what difference there is between what I’m doing with this chapter and the outdated study of rituals as discrete parts of society.
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Like I am looking at specific types of rituals discussed in text, the physical sites, and what these rituals meant within kingship.
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It’s been awhile since I looked at the paradigm shifts in archaeology/anthropology. Like, a good 10 years. I only realized relatively recently that we are now more in a post-postmodern era. But that wasn’t anything we were taught.
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When I did postmodernism in my historiography class back in 2014, we talked a lot about truths and memory. How can we know the past? Are we just all making it up? Objectivity is a lie and nothing we read can accurately reflect reality.
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It was a disheartening thing to read because one of the conclusions we drew was what the heck is the point?
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Anyway we didn’t get much of an answer out of that. Only that I had a sort of crisis around that time of whether I can really study history.
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