Lesson 5 Essay: Humans Make Meaning
Let’s revisit the guinea pig healing that we viewed earlier in the semester. If you need to go back and refresh your memory, it is in Lesson 1. We used it as an example of the importance of practicing cultural relativism. Now, we need to go back and understand the religious and healing meaning of the ritual.
Can you use some of the ideas of Chapter 11 (and 17) which are presented in the PowerPoint to explain what you observed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HvV8Qke_8U This is the guinea pig video