Image and Pilgrimage 2

Time after time, I struggled to find out what I wanted my major to be, then I just settled on making my major Sociology. When I got to CNU, I learned that they offered three concentrations in Sociology; Anthropology, Criminology, and General Sociology. In the book, Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, the author states how it’s important for anthropologists to study the fields of a culture’s symbolic or liturgical actions. “Anthropologists have learned that is necessary to study the total field of a great ceremony, the non-ritualized factors surrounding it, as well as the liturgical or symbolic action” (Turner 37). I found this interesting because as a sociology major, I can possibly study the ceremonies of culture, and their symbolic factors. I can only imagine how interesting it is t study a culture whose methods have the same meaning, but are different.