The Walking Dead Anthropology
Zombies
Zombies are really an interesting topic from all points of view. They already have been the subject of multiple discussions today without even knowing if they are real or if they could be created in the near future by some virus or bacteria.
This paper is focus on learning more about what these zombies are, where they were originated according to religions, will also discussed one of the most important series of the last decade on TV "The Walking Dead" and how it uses these beings for animation turning them into popular figures in our society associating the story with the prophecies and giving an encouraging message about humanity.
Introducing these real or imaginary beings and at least the theory of origin is important. Hearing …show more content…
the word zombie to many of us comes to mind is an image of a dead that comes back to life, crawling to make us a banquet. Well this is why cultures has use science fiction films by series or books, the reality is quite another to believe and has much to do with religion, black magic and slavery.
The word zombie comes originally from Haiti, Inside the Haitian Vodou tradition and oral tradition Zombie concept has been of great importance since it involved the concept of body and soul. In the voodoo religion has the concept of dual soul, which means a division of the soul and from this the two types of zombies zombie corporeal and incorporeal, or as some scholars have called unfold "the body without soul" and the "disembodied soul". What distinguishes the two types such as a zombie walking down the street, which has risen from the grave, or one who inhabits a vessel to be sold later and provide protection, but both can work as domestic servants.
There have been many investigations that have been made but very few cases have been found in which zombies are just unfortunate victims, people who have been forced into slavery under the influence of powerful drugs. This is because the Haitian priests subjected to human exposure to a drug called tetrodotoxin which blocks sodium channels on nerves, causing paralysis peripheral yet awareness remains until death.
After that person is declared dead and buried then dug up the body and applies chemical paste to keep the unfortunate victim in a zombie state, ie trance. This person is then used as a slave by means of voodoo traditions. Both arrived this belief that Haitians take measures to prevent the dead from being turned into slaves, like injecting large amount of salt water or even cut off their heads.
Having delved into the origins of these beings or the theory of existence let 's explained a little about the influence of zombies in our culture.
The society has been so influenced by zombies for many years but now that this has become a trend that already has thousands of fans around the world. The zombie film is a subgenre of horror films, and has hundreds of movies in which the main foundation is the presence of the Living Dead in 1968 was the first movie called Night of the Living Dead. As well as are occurring now based on the Zombies series, in which the main objective is human survival.
Another example that exists today is the famous TV show "The Walking Dead" series in the United States televion with high rates of tune and really succeeded in making viewers with even compenetren series when takes several seasons.
It is presumed that success is because beyond being a horror story with zombies as the main characters, the series is a demonstration of how this apocalypse of walking dead eating humans can make humans able to stay alive even being forced to suffer horrible things to the point of killing up to loved …show more content…
ones.
In other words the series of events associated to the human race caused by the same man but this group of people that survive had to become murderers of strangers and family to survive. This story puts them in these difficult situations and that is where the message raises perhaps encouraging that this series brings viewers to see humans every day fighting against not only zombies but also living complicated personal situations but cling to live and continue on demonstrating the strength of the human rce especially in hard times.
To conclude this paper did an introduction to the theory of the living dead or zombies giving some information of Vudu religions and some other important research.
Then an explanation of the influence of this Zombies had specially in the film industry in order to now have TV shows such as "The Walking dead" associating zombies with humans prophecies letting the viewers not only presence the end of the world, also experiencing the capacity of human beings when they are struggling trying to survive they can show both sides of the coin, the killer side which is natural in order to survive and the other side that they never loose which is
humanity.
REFERENCES
Zombies: Un pequeño ensayo sobre los muertos vivientes y por qué son mejores que los vampiros y los hombres lobo. September 26, 2010. wordpress.com http://unfauglith.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/zombies-un-pequeno-ensayo-sobre-los-muertos-vivientes-y-por-que-son-mejores-que-los-vampiros-y-los-hombres-lobo/ Estandarte.The Walking Dead y los ensayos zombies.September 24,2012.Estandarte.com
http://www.estandarte.com/noticias/libros/ensayo/ensayos-sobre-zombis-the-walking-dead_1454.html
Zombies are really an interesting topic from all points of view. They already have been the subject of multiple discussions today without even knowing if they are real or if they could be created in the near future by some virus or bacteria.
This paper is focus on learning more about what these zombies are, where they were originated according to religions, will also discussed one of the most important series of the last decade on TV "The Walking Dead" and how it uses these beings for animation turning them into popular figures in our society associating the story with the prophecies and giving an encouraging message about humanity.
Introducing these real or imaginary beings and at least the theory of origin is important. Hearing …show more content…
the word zombie to many of us comes to mind is an image of a dead that comes back to life, crawling to make us a banquet. Well this is why cultures has use science fiction films by series or books, the reality is quite another to believe and has much to do with religion, black magic and slavery.
The word zombie comes originally from Haiti, Inside the Haitian Vodou tradition and oral tradition Zombie concept has been of great importance since it involved the concept of body and soul. In the voodoo religion has the concept of dual soul, which means a division of the soul and from this the two types of zombies zombie corporeal and incorporeal, or as some scholars have called unfold "the body without soul" and the "disembodied soul". What distinguishes the two types such as a zombie walking down the street, which has risen from the grave, or one who inhabits a vessel to be sold later and provide protection, but both can work as domestic servants.
There have been many investigations that have been made but very few cases have been found in which zombies are just unfortunate victims, people who have been forced into slavery under the influence of powerful drugs. This is because the Haitian priests subjected to human exposure to a drug called tetrodotoxin which blocks sodium channels on nerves, causing paralysis peripheral yet awareness remains until death.
After that person is declared dead and buried then dug up the body and applies chemical paste to keep the unfortunate victim in a zombie state, ie trance. This person is then used as a slave by means of voodoo traditions. Both arrived this belief that Haitians take measures to prevent the dead from being turned into slaves, like injecting large amount of salt water or even cut off their heads.
Having delved into the origins of these beings or the theory of existence let 's explained a little about the influence of zombies in our culture.
The society has been so influenced by zombies for many years but now that this has become a trend that already has thousands of fans around the world. The zombie film is a subgenre of horror films, and has hundreds of movies in which the main foundation is the presence of the Living Dead in 1968 was the first movie called Night of the Living Dead. As well as are occurring now based on the Zombies series, in which the main objective is human survival.
Another example that exists today is the famous TV show "The Walking Dead" series in the United States televion with high rates of tune and really succeeded in making viewers with even compenetren series when takes several seasons.
It is presumed that success is because beyond being a horror story with zombies as the main characters, the series is a demonstration of how this apocalypse of walking dead eating humans can make humans able to stay alive even being forced to suffer horrible things to the point of killing up to loved …show more content…
ones.
In other words the series of events associated to the human race caused by the same man but this group of people that survive had to become murderers of strangers and family to survive. This story puts them in these difficult situations and that is where the message raises perhaps encouraging that this series brings viewers to see humans every day fighting against not only zombies but also living complicated personal situations but cling to live and continue on demonstrating the strength of the human rce especially in hard times.
To conclude this paper did an introduction to the theory of the living dead or zombies giving some information of Vudu religions and some other important research.
Then an explanation of the influence of this Zombies had specially in the film industry in order to now have TV shows such as "The Walking dead" associating zombies with humans prophecies letting the viewers not only presence the end of the world, also experiencing the capacity of human beings when they are struggling trying to survive they can show both sides of the coin, the killer side which is natural in order to survive and the other side that they never loose which is
humanity.
REFERENCES
Zombies: Un pequeño ensayo sobre los muertos vivientes y por qué son mejores que los vampiros y los hombres lobo. September 26, 2010. wordpress.com http://unfauglith.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/zombies-un-pequeno-ensayo-sobre-los-muertos-vivientes-y-por-que-son-mejores-que-los-vampiros-y-los-hombres-lobo/ Estandarte.The Walking Dead y los ensayos zombies.September 24,2012.Estandarte.com
http://www.estandarte.com/noticias/libros/ensayo/ensayos-sobre-zombis-the-walking-dead_1454.html