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The outsider word Jiang says insults the ritual because it assumes make-believe where believers see truth.
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pretending
The outsider word Jiang says insults the ritual because it assumes make-believe where believers see truth.
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Jiang says Turnbull's repeated use of 'pretending' marks an outsider misunderstanding because the Pygmies would regard the ritual as true, serious, and real.
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"...importance and expectancy every evening when the woman shut themselves up pretending that they were afraid to see the end of the forest every..."
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"does not understand these people what word tells us he does not understand these people He doesn't know what's going on. Why? What word..."
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"...what word implies that here? It repeats itself over and over. Pretending, right? Pretending. We think they're playing. What do they think? We think..."
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"...The energy part of this. We produce our own energy, almost pretending there isn't a global energy economy that America inevitably will be dependent..."
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"...the Spanish Inquisition, where Catholics were looking for Jews who were pretending to be Christians, the leadership were Jews. The leadership were crypto -Jews...."
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"...by the Jewish priests, and they accuse him of blasphemy, of pretending to be God. And they bring him to Pontius Pilate, the governor,..."
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"...actors in the world. They want people to go for, like, pretending that's something they're not, okay? They want Barack Obama. The problem with..."
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"...a tomb, cut up, and have sex with a prostitute. Okay? Pretending to be a priest. And then Horus will be, of course, this...."
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"...office somewhere they have really cushy jobs sit in office somewhere pretending to work. And they need to justify their existence. They need to..."
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"...your Messiah and he did that by acting it out but pretending that's in the great but pretending to be Julius Caesar okay and..."
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"...fiction. Okay? So the king and the pope are benefit from pretending the Catholic Church is in charge in order to confer legitimacy onto..."
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"...history, for most people, this is not playing. This is not pretending. It's true. It's real. It's what allows us to be close to..."
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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