Chapter 8 Flashcards
Art
“Play with form prudcing some aesthetically successful tranformation-representation”
a kind of play that is subject to certain culturally-appropriate restrictions on form and content.
It aims to evoke a holistic, aesthetic response from the artist and the observer
Communitas
An unstructured or minimally structures community of equal individuals frequently found in rite of passage
Framing
A Cognitive boundary that marks certain behaviours as “play” or “ordinary life”
Liminal Period
The ambiguous transitional state in a rite of passage in which the person or persons undergoing the ritual are outside their ordinary social positions
Metacommunication (3)
Communicating about the process of communication
Anticipatory
Reflective
Adaptive
Myth
Representative story that embodies a culture’s assumptions about the way society or the world in general must operate
Stories that convey self-evident cultural assumptions that give guidance for action
Orthodoxy
“correct docterine”; the prohibition of deviation from approved mythic texts
Orthopraxy
“correct practine”; the prohibition of deviation from approved forms of ritual behaviour
Play
Framing that is consciously adopted by the players
Reflexivity
Critically thinking about the way one thinks
Rite of passage
A ritual that serves to mark the movement and transformation of an individual from one social position to another
Ritual
Repetitive everyday routine composed of a sequence of symbolic activities and adhere to a culturally defined ritual schema and are closely connected to a specific set of ideas central to the culture
Sport
Competitive, often physically exertive activity governed by game-like rules that are ritually patterned and agreed-upon by all participants
Transformation-Representation
The process in which experience is transformed as it is represented symbolically in a different medium
Michelle Bigenho
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