Totem & Taboo Flashcards
1
Q
Manitou
A
Personal animal figure
2
Q
Taboo
A
Forbidden thing
Prohibitions on actions , such as food clothing
Prohibitions on association such as friendships intercourse marriage
3
Q
Kashrut
A
The things are Jews can eat such as pig sea life and in anything slaughtered
4
Q
Carnival mardi grass
A
Celebration of eating meat for the last time do to lent they will go six weeks without eating meat
5
Q
Hindus
A
Caste priest , Warriors farmers merchants, menial laborers , the unclean
Food laws – cow is holy, Brahmin eat pakka
Everyone else kacca
Untouchables jutha
6
Q
Fetish
A
Meant African or Polynesian charm with magical energy, a totem as a form of a fetish
Totem : animal ancestor of a tribe
