Lindsey Renoll
Blog Topic: Edith Turners Except about Communitas
After reading the excerpt from Edith Turners Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy, I have a more set understanding of what Communitas is. It seems that it’s essentially the spirit of a community, and to be related to this class, it’s the spirit of a religious community and their travels. Communitas can’t be held to a certain set of boundaries, it is limitless and evolves however it wants. When people experience the Communitas of a community, they are typically in flow, which is the merging of action and awareness in an environment, which typically means they’re engaged in no mindedness. Meaning they’re in their own state where nothing can affect them because they are being empty minded. In a spiritual community, songs are sung to help enhance flow, because singing in groups passes along happiness in relation to the spirituality. Some spirits can use song to take a shape for itself, by having subtle representation in the songs. Another significant part of flow is that when someone is flow they act not because of the future results, but the future reward. The concept of Communitas is different than what occurs in a church environment. Communitas doesn’t allow itself to be set to an exact location, instead it moves from place to place wherever it is pulled. Therefore a church cannot always act as a place of Communitas. From reading this excerpt, my general understanding of Communitas is that it can be expressed through many forms, one being song, it isn’t tied down to a single location, instead it moves wherever it is brought, and it allows anyone in Communitas to experience flow.
Blog Topic: Edith Turners Except about Communitas
After reading the excerpt from Edith Turners Communitas: The Anthropology of Collective Joy, I have a more set understanding of what Communitas is. It seems that it’s essentially the spirit of a community, and to be related to this class, it’s the spirit of a religious community and their travels. Communitas can’t be held to a certain set of boundaries, it is limitless and evolves however it wants. When people experience the Communitas of a community, they are typically in flow, which is the merging of action and awareness in an environment, which typically means they’re engaged in no mindedness. Meaning they’re in their own state where nothing can affect them because they are being empty minded. In a spiritual community, songs are sung to help enhance flow, because singing in groups passes along happiness in relation to the spirituality. Some spirits can use song to take a shape for itself, by having subtle representation in the songs. Another significant part of flow is that when someone is flow they act not because of the future results, but the future reward. The concept of Communitas is different than what occurs in a church environment. Communitas doesn’t allow itself to be set to an exact location, instead it moves from place to place wherever it is pulled. Therefore a church cannot always act as a place of Communitas. From reading this excerpt, my general understanding of Communitas is that it can be expressed through many forms, one being song, it isn’t tied down to a single location, instead it moves wherever it is brought, and it allows anyone in Communitas to experience flow.
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