#13 Outside Reading: The Anthropology of Experience

Afton Reed

Simple and complex wholes- Complex wholes are made up of subsets.There is consciousness and seperate images involved. It isn't a sudden change. It happens in sequences.whereas a simple wholeness is immediate and spontaneous without thought.There is much debate on whether liminality and communitas are considered simple or complex. They seems to have aspects of both, so it seems they are both simple and complex.