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Question 1

Why does Lee say that the material culture is never purely material? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 1

Because religion is invoked

Question 2

What is Weltanschaung? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 2

The belief about life and environment, which members of a society find themselves permeated by religion.

Question 3

Where are the Baiga people from? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 3

India

Question 4

What is the difference between animism and mysticism? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 4

• mysticism: assumes a separation of man from nature and communion is achieved after loss of self and then merges with the beyond
• animism: assumes that the dead are always with us in nature

Question 5

Explain how the Maya connect the supernatural to growing corn. (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 5

Before a man plants, he builds an alter in the field and prays there. He cannot speak in the corn field, it’s like a temple to them. The cornfield is a sacred contract between supernatural and men. Supernatural yield the riches of the natural environment to men, and in exchange men perform ceremonies and offer things to the super naturals.

Question 6

Where are the Wintu people from? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 6

Indians from California

Question 7

Explain how Navajo sand paintings are connected to the world of the sacred. (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 7

Painting also acts as a ceremony that connects to the sacred and the universe; used to heal people in rituals

Question 8

Explain how the hopi salt Journey is connected to the supernatural (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 8

they have to believe they are one with nature and that nature helps them

Question 9

For an Australian Aboriginal why is being placed in jail such a terrifying punishment? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)

Answer 9

Being away from the land where their people are from causes them to lose their identity (past, present, and future)

Question 10

What was dug up during the excavation ceremony at Yankee Stadium in April 2017? (Voodoo logic)

Answer 10

A Red Sox jersey for David Ortiz

Question 11

Why do people usually bury items at a building site? (Voodoo logic)

Answer 11

to keep curses away

Question 12

The burial of objects and names can be traced to where? (Voodoo logic)

Answer 12

Ancient Egyptians

Question 13

According to authorities what should have buried at this site? (Voodoo logic)

Answer 13

A yankees jersey should be buried at the Red Sox stadium

Question 14

What is ecstatic ritual?

Answer 14

When natives would gather to dance, sing, or chant to a state of exhaustion and, beyond that, sometimes trance

Question 15

Where was the Timodoree performed? How was it described by Captain Cook?

Answer 15

In Tahiti; he said that a group of girls performed indecent dances to indecent songs using indecent actions

Question 16

What activity most signified savagery or otherness in the European mind?

Answer 16

Group ecstasy; losing self in rhythms and emotions of the group

Question 17

How did Frederick Davenport explain the bizarre behavior of the primitives?

Answer 17

They had only a “single spinal ganglion”to process incoming sensory signals and convert them into muscular responses, white the civilized mind had, of course, an entire brain with which to assess the incoming data and weigh the body’s responses

Question 18

For TK Oesterreich, what European tradition was most like that of the savages?

Answer 18

Carnivals

Question 19

Myths are used to do what? (myth)

Answer 19

Tell stories whose truth seems self-evident because they do such a good job of integrating personal experiences with a wider set of assumptions about society

Question 20

Why are myths socially important? (myth)

Answer 20

If they are taken literally, they tell people where they have come from and where they are going and how they should live right now.

Question 21

What is orthodoxy? (myth)

Answer 21

Correct doctrine

Question 22

What is the difference between scientific and nonscientific origin myths? (myth)

Answer 22

Scientific- must be taken to the natural world to be matched against material evidence
Nonscientific- vitality of how well they match up with the social world

Question 23

In cosmologies what do birds symbolize? (animals)

Answer 23

The upper world of spirits and immense serpents representing either the entire cosmos or the chaotic energy of the underworld.

Question 24

In many cultures turtles and tortoises do what? (animals)

Answer 24

Carries the earth or the heaven on their backs.

Question 25

The Inuits link humans to which animal? (animals)

Answer 25

bears

Question 26

What is metamorphosis? (animals)

Answer 26

Change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means

Question 27

Tribal shamans in Central and South America are said to be able to change themselves into which animal? (animals)

Answer 27

Jaguars

Question 28

The deity All Spirit is worshiped by which people? (creation)

Answer 28

Cheyenne of North America

Question 29

In all mythologies creation is initially signified by what? (creation)

Answer 29

Appearance of separation in place of oneness

Question 30

Which religion worships Vishnu? (creation)

Answer 30

Hinduism

Question 31

Myths tell us that floods occur for what reason? (flood myths)

Answer 31

Punish humanity

Question 31

Who is Ananta? (creation)

Answer 31

Cosmic serpent in the waters of chaos

Question 32

The Christian Biblical flood is derived from where? (flood myths)

Answer 32

Noah’s Ark

Question 33

The Myth of Five Suns is from which culture? (flood myths)

Answer 33

The Aztecs

Question 34

Give four reasons why some people and state governments oppose these memorials (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)

Answer 34

1.Gets in the way of road crews jobs
2.Religious symbols placed on state property
3.Macabre eyesores & dangerous distractions
4.Accidents or injuries due to the placement of the crosses

Question 35

Give three kinds of responses by States to the creation of these memorials (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)

Answer 35

1.Missouri: Adopt-a-Highway Program
2.Delaware: Memorial Gardens
3.Law imposing a $25 fine

Question 36

According to Anthropologist Sylvia Grider how are these memorials a reflection of social change in America? (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)

Answer 36

It became more acceptable to express personal grief in public areas

Question 37

What does “descanos” mean? Where in the U.S. are roadside memorials most commonly found? (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)

Answer 37

“Resting Places”. American Southwest

Question 38

In which four states was the belief in the “undead” rampant? (vampire lore rooted in New England)

Answer 38

Rhode island
Connecticut
Vermont
New hampshire

Question 39

Which disease may have stoked the fear of the undead? (vampire lore rooted in New England)

Answer 39

tuberculosis

Question 40

As in ceremonies of birth and marriage, what do funerals signify? (why disposing of the dead matters to the living)

Answer 40

A persons rite of passage, a persons belonging or place as a human in society

Question 41

According to Andrew Chamberlain why is it important that funeral rites be respected? (why disposing of the dead matters to the living)

Answer 41

It produces a sense of order at a time of uncertainty and change (also provides a sense of closure to the people attending the funeral)