ORDEN I KLASSIFIKATIONEN: Om repræsentationen og udbredelsen af religiøs viden
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i35-36.115276Resumé
Christian Kordt Højbjerg: The Order of
Classification. On the Representation and
Distribution of Religions Knowledge
The purpose of the article is to present and
discuss the apparent contradiction between
differentiated cognition and cultural
consensus with regard to the religious
category sale among the Loma people in
Guinea and Liberia. Opposing traditional
classificatory approaches to cultural
knowledge in anthropology, it is argued that
the complex religious category is more
adequately rendered through a cognitive and
distributive approach. The first part of the
article identifies three different, although
frequently coexisting mechanisms of distribution
and acquisition of sale knowledge,
which are labeled respectively continuous
(semantic memory), discontinuous (episodic
memory), and esoteric (secret knowledge
acquisition). In the second part, an analysis
of a sacrificial ritual leads to the conclusion
that the sale category is an awkward
classificatory case, which helps to build
cognitive bridges between separate domains
of reality. This general cognitive quality of
the sale category serves to apprehend sale as
a collectively shared representation,
irrespective of its multi-vocality and
differentiated cognition.
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