Chapter 9 Flashcards
Q: What is play?
A: A framing (or orienting) context that (1) is continuously adopted by the players; (2) is pleasurable; and (3) alludes to the non-play world by transforming the objects, roles, actions, and relations of ends and means characteristics of the non-play world.
Q: What is art?
A: A representation that relates to an object, an experience, or some other component of the world and that evokes a felt response.
Q: What is a myth?
A: A representative story that embodies a culture’s assumptions about the way that society, or the world in general, must operate.
Q: What is a ritual?
A: A repetitive social practice set off from everyday routine and composed of a sequence of symbolic activities that adhere to a culturally defined ritual schema and are closely connected to a specific set of ideas significant to the culture.
Q: What is metacommunication?
A: Communicating about the process of communication.
Q: What is framing?
A: An understood boundary that marks certain behaviors as “play” or as “ordinary life.”
Q: What is a sport?
A: An aggressively competitive, often physically exertive activity governed by game-like rules that are ritually patterned and agrees upon by all participants.
Q: What is transformation representation?
A: The process in which experience is transformed as it is represented symbolically in a different medium.
Q: What is orthodoxy?
A: “Correct doctrine”; the prohibition of deviation from certain generally accepted rules or beliefs.
Q: What is a rite of passage?
A: A ritual that serves to mark the movement and transformation of an individual from one social position to another.
Q: What is liminal period?
A: The ambiguous transitional state in a rite of passage in which the persons undergoing the ritual are outside their ordinary social positions.
Q: What is communitas?
A: An unstructured or minimally structured community of equal individuals frequently found in rites of passage.
Q: What is orthopraxy?
A: “Correct practice”; the prohibition of deviation from certain generally accepted forms of behavior.
