Nathan Bloom: December 7 2009
To me communitas plays an essential role in this course and the understanding of Sacred Place. It is the lack of structure verse community which is full of structure. To go to a sacred place as a community would not let you experience the place fully because you will be caught in the structure. According to Turner and Turner (pg. 252) Communitas and Community go hand in hand. They cycle back and forth in order to create balance. To me this means that both are needed for the world to operate but in different places and at different times. Spontaneous communitas is found on the hiking trails as we discussed in class, it is random and without bounds. Normative Communitas appears fake to me. It tries to "capture" spontaneity by laying down rules and regulations, but the idea of spontaneity is that it is random and can in no way be planned so this type of communitas seems hypocritical to me. the last type is Ideological communitas is trying to create communitas to help society which again seems improbable to me. communitas will clash with society if brought together at the same place and time. the only real way for communitas to reach its full potential is spontaneously.
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