Please rewrite the responses in with different wording and phrasing. The origina
Please rewrite the responses in with different wording and phrasing. The original prompts for the paper are below:
Describe the Shaman’s Plan. This is a tough one that requires you to engage in anthropological analysis. You are to bring an anthropological perspective to the film and explain why the shaman is holding the feast for a neighboring village, how the feast is part of the shaman’s curing responsibilities, and how the logic of the feast as a curing mechanism is related to a Yanomamo spirit theory of disease. This is never explained in the film, and so you have to use what we have learned this semester to piece together how the shaman envisions the feast as part of his responsibility to prevent his people from getting sick and dying. Consider/use the following in your analysis:
a) Remember that shamans must always cure spiritually, medicinally, and socially.
b) How does feasting the neighboring village socially and spiritually cure according to a spirit theory of disease and the logic by which Yanomamo people understand themselves to get sick?
c) Yanomamo kinship is unilineal, and is organized through a patrilineal rule of descent. The Yanomamo also practice cross-cousin marriage. Can you describe how cross-cousin marriage might be present in the shaman’s curing logic (Hint: the shaman has two children that we meet them in the film, and each of those children has a child, so the explanation involves the shaman’s grandchildren)?