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Anthropolgy Review Sheet 7 Flashcards

1
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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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20
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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?

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cyclical time and the end of time

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What is a symbol of eternity

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ouroboros and infinity

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27
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What is the non-rational reason for the world to end

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God is coming back

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28
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What are the rational reasons for the world to end

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  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

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People are helpless and what reasons, reasons, and actions comfort them.

30
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What are the EMIC reasoning for the end of the world

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THE END IS COMING AND ONLY THOSE WHO ARE PREPARE WILL SURVIVIE.

31
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What are ceremonies

A

Public emotional transcendence

32
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What are rituals

A

Rule governed activities

33
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What is the purpose of rituals

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To validate the ceremony

34
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What is the purpose of ceremonies

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To connect the bond between the sacred and mundane and you and the community

35
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform

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  1. Mark the passage of time
  2. Mark important events
  3. Maintain group identity
  4. Restore normalcy in crisis
36
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform

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  1. Mark the passage of time
  2. Mark important events
  3. Maintain group identity
  4. Restore normalcy in crisis
37
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform

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  1. Mark the passage of time
  2. Mark important events
  3. Maintain group identity
  4. Restore normalcy in crisis
38
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What are the four important social functions ceremonies perform

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  1. Mark the passage of time
  2. Mark important events
  3. Maintain group identity
  4. Restore normalcy in crisis
39
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by

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  1. Time
  2. Rituals
  3. Symbols
  4. Myths
40
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by

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  1. Time
  2. Rituals
  3. Symbols
  4. Myths
41
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by

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  1. Time
  2. Rituals
  3. Symbols
  4. Myths
42
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What are FOUR things ceremonies are bound by

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  1. Time
  2. Rituals
  3. Symbols
  4. Myths
43
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What are rites of intensification?

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Rituals or symbols which make the ceremony “work”
ex. turkey at Thanksgiving, costumes on Halloween

44
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What is a rite of passage

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ceremonies that mark the movement of people move from one social role to another (sometimes from childhood to adulthood)

45
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What is the purpose of a rite of passage

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to reproduce the culture

46
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage

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  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?
47
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage

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  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

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  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?
49
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What is the structure of a Rite of Passage

A
  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?
50
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What are the two specificity types of rites of passage

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Ex. Enkipaata
1. Gender (boys only)
2. Age (12-15)

51
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What are the three stages of a rite of passage

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  1. Separation
  2. Transition (tests: phys. spiritual, mental)
  3. Reaggregation
52
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What are the three stages of a rite of passage

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  1. Separation
  2. Transition (tests: phys. spiritual, mental)
  3. Reaggregation
53
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What are the three stages of a rite of passage

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  1. Separation
  2. Transition (tests: phys. spiritual, mental)
  3. Reaggregation
54
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Example of the three stages in Enkipaata

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  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)
55
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Example of the three stages in the Amish (social) rite of passage (Rumspringer)

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  1. separation (teens (male or female) from their family)
  2. transition (drink, have sex, party)
  3. reaggregation (they choose to be Amish or not)
56
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The three stages in going to college

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  1. separation (not age or gender specific) from their family
  2. transition (education, drugs, the limbo of “kidult” and community)
  3. reaggregation (graduation)
57
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The stages of funerals

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  1. separation (dead removed)
  2. transition: the funeral
  3. reaggregation: dead rejoin us
  4. penalty for failure: loss of closure (TO RESTORE NORMALCY)
58
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What is atheism?

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The belief that the sacred exists only in our imaginations- no rational proof of the sacred

59
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What is death

A

a transition from the mundane to the sacred

60
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Why do anthropologists study death ceremonies and rituals

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  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
61
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What is main thing that the Kikuyu are connected to

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The land (farmers), family, and history

62
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What is main thing that the Maasai are connected to

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cattle (pastoralists)

63
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How do the Maasai bury their dead

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They don’t, they let them rot so their sould may be free

64
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What are some connections between the living and the dead?

A

the Tolai
19th century photographs
cremation
skin graft plaques

65
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How do the Celts think of the celebration of the dead

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Samhain (Oct. 31) New Year’s Eve
the living celebrate the return of the dead

66
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What’s another “Halloween-like” holiday

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Day(s) of the Dead

67
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What’s the major theme about vampires?

A

The reality of the sacred can influenced the reality of the mundane.

68
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Why did we bury things when they die?

A

Because death is a transition?

69
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What are the five contemp. funeral ceremonies?

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roadside shrines
cemetery memorials
burial artifacts
green burials
launch into space

70
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What is the difference between traditonal and contemporary cultures and religions

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Traditionalists believe in ghosts and spirits but contemporary do not.

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