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9677747567 |
Type of Project |
ESSAY |
Writer Level |
PHD VERIFIED |
Format |
APA |
Academic Sources |
10 |
Page Count |
3-12 PAGES |
The film “Paris is Burning “highlighted a group of people who consider themselves gay. This group of people, trying to prove themselves in their world trying to be somebodies. They worked together in order to found a competition that could help encourage them the present their values through that competition. This competition called “ The Ball”. Participating on this completion means a lot for them. The Ball competition is basically a space where participant walk around it in order give enjoyment to the audience who is watching them. In this competition, they have the freedom to do whatever they intend to in order the attract and entertain the audience. In addition, trying there best to win the prize which they consider it to be as the Oscar prize. It is the fantasy of being superstar. They believe that this completion make them stronger and think more. In addition, the audience motivate them to walk in this space and bring enjoyment to them. There are legends who won lots of prizes in this competition. Some of them are working to bring their experience to the next generation, so they could be legends as they were in there successful journey as they believe. These people are facing issues in terms of there gender, class, and race portrayed. Some of them have no place to live, others are getting abused because of there gender and race portrayed. This competition is valuable for them because it could make their future better and brighter.
Identify Different Types Of Religious Specialists
Classmate writing
Anthropologists use different terms to identify different types of religious specialists. The most common names are shaman, priest, and prophet, as well as other specialized religious roles, such as witches, mediums, sorcerers. One of the main differences between a priest and a shaman is that “shaman is a ritual practitioner whose status is acquired through a personal communication from a supernatural being, whereas a priest does not necessarily have a face-to-face relationship with the spirit world but must have competence in conducting ritual” (Turner, 1972). Interestingly, mediums, shamans, and prophets constitute a sub-type of a single religion. In comparison to priests, they communicate to deities and spirits “person-to-person”; while between the priest and the deity there is an institution.
Among the Aguaruna of northeastern Peru, being a shaman has its dangers. People of this region believe that shamans are capable of diagnosing the cause of affliction and removing it from a person’s body. However, if they are not able to diagnose and remove it from the body, they believe that the illness is caused by sorcerers. The shamans do everything to discover and execute sorcerers in sake of the society’s benefit. When individuals are identified as sorcerers and are executed, the Aguaruna shamans face dangers and threats made from sorcerer’s family. In addition, sometimes the shamans use their power to bewitch their own clients. As the author states, “because shamans control spirit darts, people fear that a shaman may be tempted to use the cover of healing as an opportunity to bewitch his own clients for personal reasons” (Brown, 1989). When clients do not see any results when they go back home, they assume that it is the shaman who used his power to bewitch the client. In similar situations, shamans are executed the same way as sorcerers.