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14:29 Aug 30, 2004 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Social Sciences - Anthropology | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Kim Metzger Mexico Local time: 07:58 | ||||||
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4 +1 | an act of violence regarded to purify a community |
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4 | intentional harm |
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4 | scapegoat |
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intentional harm Explanation: although keeping as is would also be acceptable. |
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scapegoat Explanation: I think this discussion might help. According to Rene Girard, sacrificial violence serves as a scapegoat for a community to exorcise its repressed hostilities. In this case indifference to hunger, sickness and death releases (exorcises) Brazilian society from their repressed hostilities. --- Indeed, McCarthy's fascination with human affinity for bloodshed recalls Rene Girard's seminal theories of sacrifice. According to Girard, societies must purge latent violence periodically through the destruction of a 'sacrificial' victim. Just as a metal rod attracts lightning, this victim - usually an outsider to the named society - serves as a scapegoat for a community to exorcise its repressed hostilities. John Grady and Rawlins fit all the criteria of Girard's sacrificial victim - outsiders to a community, presumptuous in their desires to become members of the society, free from family attachments that would revenge a crime against them, and invested with the belief - the 'dangerous', 'vacuous' belief as McCarthy puts it - that members of two communities can merge harmoniously. http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/pretty/summ3.h... |
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an act of violence regarded to purify a community Explanation: In this text they seem to be suggesting that in Brazil the unwillingness to do something about infant hunger/sickness etc., or in other words the tolerance of suffering is a form of sacrifical violence. The writer's point is that this passivity belongs to the same category as active (sacrifical) violence. |
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