When we talked about rituals, you were introduced to two British anthropologists and their ways of thinking about rituals…Victor Turner and Maurice Bloch. Turner put rituals in the context of his concept of social dramas, and rituals appear as sorts of fix-it shops, where society gets occasionally repaired. Maurice Bloch saw things differently – he said rituals are like tunnels and so rituals serve to create and maintain conformity in a population. They are in that sense ideological. How was the term “ideological” defined in class (we’ll have done that when we were talking about defining religion), and why does it apply to Bloch’s notion of the tunnel-like nature of rituals? (That is, how are rituals ideological?) In addition, how are myths also ideological? - Each assessment is made up of a three-part writing assignment. This is the first of thr

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