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Why does Lee say that the material culture is never purely material? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
Because religion is invoked
What is Weltanschaung? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
The belief about life and environment, which members of a society find themselves permeated by religion.
Where are the Baiga people from? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
India
What is the difference between animism and mysticism? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
- 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
Explain how the Maya connect the supernatural to growing corn. (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
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.
Where are the Wintu people from? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
Indians from California
Explain how Navajo sand paintings are connected to the world of the sacred. (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
Painting also acts as a ceremony that connects to the sacred and the universe; used to heal people in rituals
Explain how the hopi salt Journey is connected to the supernatural (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
they have to believe they are one with nature and that nature helps them
For an Australian Aboriginal why is being placed in jail such a terrifying punishment? (Religious perspectives in Anthropology article)
Being away from the land where their people are from causes them to lose their identity (past, present, and future)
What was dug up during the excavation ceremony at Yankee Stadium in April 2017? (Voodoo logic)
A Red Sox jersey for David Ortiz
Why do people usually bury items at a building site? (Voodoo logic)
to keep curses away
The burial of objects and names can be traced to where? (Voodoo logic)
Ancient Egyptians
According to authorities what should have buried at this site? (Voodoo logic)
A yankees jersey should be buried at the Red Sox stadium
What is ecstatic ritual?
When natives would gather to dance, sing, or chant to a state of exhaustion and, beyond that, sometimes trance
Where was the Timodoree performed? How was it described by Captain Cook?
In Tahiti; he said that a group of girls performed indecent dances to indecent songs using indecent actions
What activity most signified savagery or otherness in the European mind?
Group ecstasy; losing self in rhythms and emotions of the group
How did Frederick Davenport explain the bizarre behavior of the primitives?
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
For TK Oesterreich, what European tradition was most like that of the savages?
Carnivals
Myths are used to do what? (myth)
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
Why are myths socially important? (myth)
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.
What is orthodoxy? (myth)
Correct doctrine
What is the difference between scientific and nonscientific origin myths? (myth)
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
In cosmologies what do birds symbolize? (animals)
The upper world of spirits and immense serpents representing either the entire cosmos or the chaotic energy of the underworld.
In many cultures turtles and tortoises do what? (animals)
Carries the earth or the heaven on their backs.
The Inuits link humans to which animal? (animals)
bears
What is metamorphosis? (animals)
Change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means
Tribal shamans in Central and South America are said to be able to change themselves into which animal? (animals)
Jaguars
The deity All Spirit is worshiped by which people? (creation)
Cheyenne of North America
In all mythologies creation is initially signified by what? (creation)
Appearance of separation in place of oneness
Which religion worships Vishnu? (creation)
Hinduism
Myths tell us that floods occur for what reason? (flood myths)
Punish humanity
Who is Ananta? (creation)
Cosmic serpent in the waters of chaos
The Christian Biblical flood is derived from where? (flood myths)
Noah’s Ark
The Myth of Five Suns is from which culture? (flood myths)
The Aztecs
Give four reasons why some people and state governments oppose these memorials (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)
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
Give three kinds of responses by States to the creation of these memorials (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)
1.Missouri: Adopt-a-Highway Program
2.Delaware: Memorial Gardens
3.Law imposing a $25 fine
According to Anthropologist Sylvia Grider how are these memorials a reflection of social change in America? (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)
It became more acceptable to express personal grief in public areas
What does “descanos” mean? Where in the U.S. are roadside memorials most commonly found? (as roadside memorials multiply, a second look)
“Resting Places”. American Southwest
In which four states was the belief in the “undead” rampant? (vampire lore rooted in New England)
Rhode island
Connecticut
Vermont
New hampshire
Which disease may have stoked the fear of the undead? (vampire lore rooted in New England)
tuberculosis
As in ceremonies of birth and marriage, what do funerals signify? (why disposing of the dead matters to the living)
A persons rite of passage, a persons belonging or place as a human in society
According to Andrew Chamberlain why is it important that funeral rites be respected? (why disposing of the dead matters to the living)
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)
