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Anthropolgy Review Sheet 7 Flashcards

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What is myth NOT?

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superstition or misunderstanding of reality

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What is myth?

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a cultural transmission of core values

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What is primeval reality?

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reality in which all values of religion originate

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What do we mean when we say that myths fuse time?

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It means that time and change is irrelevant but what is important is to believe

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What are the three things of a creation myth tells us?

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  1. Our core values
  2. Relationship between the sacred and the mundane
  3. Our deepest hopes and fears
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What are the three things of a creation myth tells us?

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  1. Our core values
  2. Relationship between the sacred and the mundane
  3. Our deepest hopes and fears
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What are the three things a creation myth tells us?

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  1. Our core values
  2. Relationship between the sacred and the mundane
  3. Our deepest hopes and fears
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What are the three things of a creation myth tells us?

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  1. Our core values
  2. Relationship between the sacred and the mundane
  3. Our deepest hopes and fears
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What are the three stages of creation myths?

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  1. Time before time (matter and space)
  2. Time of creation AND perfection (primeval reality)
  3. Time of corruption and the end of time
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What are the three stages of creation myths?

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  1. Time before time (matter and space)
  2. Time of creation AND perfection (primeval reality)
  3. Time of corruption and the end of time
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What are the three stages of creation myths?

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  1. Time before time (matter and space)
  2. Time of creation AND perfection (primeval reality)
  3. Time of corruption and the end of time
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What are the three stages of creation myths?

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  1. Time before time (matter and space)
  2. Time of creation AND perfection (primeval reality)
  3. Time of corruption and the end of time
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Who are the creator gods of creation in the Mexica society?

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Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli

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Who are the creator god of creation in the Inuit society?

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Father Raven

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Who are the creator god of creation in the Australian Aboriginal society?

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Rainbow Serpent

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Who are the creator gods of creation in the Hindu society?

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Brahman (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva)

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Who are the creator god of creation in the Judeo-Christianity society?

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Yahweh/Jehovah

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Who are the creator god of creation in the Islamic society

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Allah

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Who are the creator god of creation in secular/scientific society?

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The Big Bang

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What is not in the time of perfection

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religion

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What are some examples of times of perfection

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Greek (Golden Age)
Christian (Garden of Eden)
Australian Aboriginal (The Dreaming/Dreamtime)

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What is the time of corruption

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hunger, war, disease, conflict, sin

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What is the end of time

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End of reality and the mundane

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What are the two versions of the end of time?

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cyclical time and the end of time

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When are the two versions of the end of time?
cyclical time and the end of time
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What is a symbol of eternity
ouroboros and infinity
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What is the non-rational reason for the world to end
God is coming back
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What are the rational reasons for the world to end
1. nukes 2. climate change 3. an asteroid 4. economic collapse 5. pandemic 6. A.I
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What are the ETIC reasoning for the end of the world
People are helpless and what reasons, reasons, and actions comfort them.
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What are the EMIC reasoning for the end of the world
THE END IS COMING AND ONLY THOSE WHO ARE PREPARE WILL SURVIVIE.
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What are ceremonies
Public emotional transcendence
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What are rituals
Rule governed activities
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What is the purpose of rituals
To validate the ceremony
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What is the purpose of ceremonies
To connect the bond between the sacred and mundane and you and the community
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform
1. Mark the passage of time 2. Mark important events 3. Maintain group identity 4. Restore normalcy in crisis
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform
1. Mark the passage of time 2. Mark important events 3. Maintain group identity 4. Restore normalcy in crisis
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform
1. Mark the passage of time 2. Mark important events 3. Maintain group identity 4. Restore normalcy in crisis
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform
1. Mark the passage of time 2. Mark important events 3. Maintain group identity 4. Restore normalcy in crisis
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by
1. Time 2. Rituals 3. Symbols 4. Myths
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by
1. Time 2. Rituals 3. Symbols 4. Myths
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by
1. Time 2. Rituals 3. Symbols 4. Myths
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by
1. Time 2. Rituals 3. Symbols 4. Myths
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What are rites of intensification?
Rituals or symbols which make the ceremony "work" ex. turkey at Thanksgiving, costumes on Halloween
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What is a rite of passage
ceremonies that mark the movement of people move from one social role to another (sometimes from childhood to adulthood)
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What is the purpose of a rite of passage
to reproduce the culture
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage
1. How is it influenced by the social or natural environment? 2. What are the CORE VALUES being passed on? 3. What is the penalty of failing them?
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage
1. How is it influenced by the social or natural environment? 2. What are the CORE VALUES being passed on? 3. What is the penalty of failing them?
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage
1. How is it influenced by the social or natural environment? 2. What are the CORE VALUES being passed on? 3. What is the penalty of failing them?
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage
1. How is it influenced by the social or natural environment? 2. What are the CORE VALUES being passed on? 3. What is the penalty of failing them?
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What are the two specificity types of rites of passage
Ex. Enkipaata 1. Gender (boys only) 2. Age (12-15)
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What are the three stages of a rite of passage
1. Separation 2. Transition (tests: phys. spiritual, mental) 3. Reaggregation
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What are the three stages of a rite of passage
1. Separation 2. Transition (tests: phys. spiritual, mental) 3. Reaggregation
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What are the three stages of a rite of passage
1. Separation 2. Transition (tests: phys. spiritual, mental) 3. Reaggregation
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Example of the three stages in Enkipaata
1. separation (12-15 yo boys taken to the bush by adult males) 2. transition (physical tests of endurance) 3. reaggregation (go back and work with the cows)
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Example of the three stages in the Amish (social) rite of passage (Rumspringer)
1. separation (teens (male or female) from their family) 2. transition (drink, have sex, party) 3. reaggregation (they choose to be Amish or not)
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The three stages in going to college
1. separation (not age or gender specific) from their family 2. transition (education, drugs, the limbo of "kidult" and community) 3. reaggregation (graduation)
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The stages of funerals
1. separation (dead removed) 2. transition: the funeral 3. reaggregation: dead rejoin us 4. penalty for failure: loss of closure (TO RESTORE NORMALCY)
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What is atheism?
The belief that the sacred exists only in our imaginations- no rational proof of the sacred
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What is death
a transition from the mundane to the sacred
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Why do anthropologists study death ceremonies and rituals
1. its universal (everybody does it) 2. death is what connects the mundane to the sacred 3. tells us about the core values of the living
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What is main thing that the Kikuyu are connected to
The land (farmers), family, and history
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What is main thing that the Maasai are connected to
cattle (pastoralists)
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How do the Maasai bury their dead
They don't, they let them rot so their sould may be free
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What are some connections between the living and the dead?
the Tolai 19th century photographs cremation skin graft plaques
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How do the Celts think of the celebration of the dead
Samhain (Oct. 31) New Year's Eve the living celebrate the return of the dead
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What's another "Halloween-like" holiday
Day(s) of the Dead
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What's the major theme about vampires?
The reality of the sacred can influenced the reality of the mundane.
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Why did we bury things when they die?
Because death is a transition?
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What are the five contemp. funeral ceremonies?
roadside shrines cemetery memorials burial artifacts green burials launch into space
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What is the difference between traditonal and contemporary cultures and religions
Traditionalists believe in ghosts and spirits but contemporary do not.
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