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The shaman has a relationship with the patient and the community.
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Drumming can be used to attain a shamanic state of consciousness.
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The Dalai Lama is a spiritual leader of the Muslim Sufis.
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Deceased ancestors have no importance in the patrilineal society of traditional China.
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Animatism is the belief that nature is animated by distinct spirits.
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All religions anthropomorphize the supernatural components of their pantheon.
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The belief in ancestral spirits is associated with a dualistic approach of body/matter versus mind/soul.
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Religion and spirituality are the same thing to anthropologists.
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Among food foragers, religion tends to be inseparable from daily life.
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Twenty-five percent of the world's population identifies itself as "non-religious."
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All of the following are true about Islamic financing in the U.S. following the 2001 World Trade Center attack except:
a. U.S. Muslim home financing increased after 2001, as Muslims were eager to demonstrate their commitment to the American dream.
b. after 2001, U.S. Muslims withdrew a great deal of their monies from charities that might be misunderstood by others.
c. U.S. Muslims withdrew their monies to a great extent from the stock market and began investing in real estate.
d. Muslims in the U.S. stopped reporting their income to the Internal Revenue Service.
e. U.S. Muslims base many of their financial decisions on religious concepts.
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Islamic banking and finance are based on the religious principle of
a. riba (making equity profit).
b. lariba (not making asset-based profit).
c. loa (lending by caste hierarchy).
d. mana (magical contagion).
e. kailash (prohibition on trading).
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A process of cultural change in which a population tends toward a nonreligious worldview is called
a. desecration.
b. reaction.
c. syncretism.
d. secularization.
e. revitalization.
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All of the following statements about Haitian Vodou are correct except:
a. it emerged in Haiti following independence.
b. it is a creative blending of indigenous and foreign beliefs and practices.
c. it is spreading today more widely.
d. practitioners believe in spirit possession.
e. believers do not adhere to beliefs of any other religious tradition.
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Vodou is an example of what type of religion?
a. Mixed
b. Reactionary
c. Syncretic
d. Juxtaposed
e. Assimilated
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Which of the following statements about revitalization movements is incorrect?
a. The purpose of revitalization movements is to reform society.
b. Revitalization movements always fail because they require too much change to be tolerated.
c. All known major religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, began as revitalization movements.
d. Revitalization movements may be completely unrealistic.
e. Revitalization movements may be adaptive and give rise to long-lasting religions.
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Ideologically inspired violation of a sacred site on people believed to have evil beliefs is called
a. solicitation.
b. desecration.
c. avoidance.
d. destruction.
e. restitution.
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Who is the Catholic "Black Madonna"?
a. She is a brown or dark-skinned wooden statue or painted image representing Saint Mary
b. She is a manifestation of Saint Mary who appeared in Africa in the late 1800s
c. It is a statue of the Virgin Mary that is used for sorcery and witchcraft
d. It is an ethnocentric term that non-Catholics use to refer to the Marianist focus of the Catholic Church
e. She is a faith healer in Ghana who rose up in the late 1970s and now leads a revitalization movement within the Catholic Church
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All of the following statements about pilgrimages are correct except:
a. a pilgrimage is a sacred journey involving religious drama.
b. a pilgrimage demands personal sacrifices.
c. pilgrims usually wear special clothing, carry amulets, or perform prescribed rituals along the way.
d. pilgrims travel to sacred sites with expectations.
e. pilgrimages are practiced by Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus, but not Muslims.
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Mount Kailash is a sacred site for many religious traditions. In all of the following religious traditions it is a taboo to climb Mount Kailash except:
a. Jainism.
b. Buddhism.
c. Hinduism.
d. Islam.
e. Bnpo.
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Religion, magic, and witchcraft are all similar in which of the following ways?
a. They all disappear once modern education and scientific training expand
b. They all share the common goal of improving social relationships within a community
c. They are all associated with morose nonconformists who try to destroy society
d. They provide explanation of events and are mechanisms of social control
e. They are all morally neutral
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An explanation of misfortune based on the belief that certain individuals possess an innate, psychic power capable of causing harm, including sickness and death, is called
a. sorcery.
b. witchcraft.
c. imitative magic.
d. contagious magic.
e. rites of intensification.
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Scapulamancy, pyromancy, chiromancy, and necromancy are all examples of
a. fortumancy.
b. rites of passage.
c. divination.
d. witchcraft.
e. sorcery.
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Chiromancy is divination based on the "reading" of
a. palms.
b. shoulder blades.
c. tea leaves.
d. pebbles.
e. smoke patterns.
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If someone takes a handful of pebbles and scatters them in order to read the pattern or design as a prediction, it is called
a. chiromancy.
b. scapulamancy.
c. pyromancy.
d. geomancy.
e. hydromancy.
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Magic based on the assumption that things that are like each other somehow have a connection with each other and if you do something to one, it will affect the other, is called
a. scientific.
b. imitative.
c. contagious.
d. rebellious.
e. witchcraft.
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After the death of a famous movie star, auctions may be held of his or her personal belongings. A few years ago, the sale of a popular actor's shirt almost caused a riot among teenage girls who were bidding for it. The assumption that owning, touching, or wearing a person's shirt somehow puts you in touch with him could be used as an example of
a. internal magic.
b. symbolic magic.
c. imitative magic.
d. Witchcraft.
e. contagious magic.
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A rite of _____ serves to help groups get through crises such as drought or some other external threat to the survival of the group.
a. separation
b. purification
c. rebellion
d. passage
e. intensification
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The initiation rites for male Australian aborigines include a stage when they are isolated from the rest of society and undergo a cram course in tribal lore; the trauma associated with their ordeal is part of a teaching method that ensures that they will remember what they are taught. This particular stage in the puberty ceremony would be referred to as the stage of _____ by Arnold Van Gennep.
a. initiation
b. intensification
c. separation
d. transition
e. incorporation
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When an individual undergoes rituals to celebrate birth, puberty, and marriage, he or she is practicing
a. rites of rebellion.
b. rites of passage.
c. rites of intensification.
d. rites of magic.
e. life stage rituals.
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If a society has a taboo against eating pork and a member eats it mistakenly, what types of rituals might the person undergo to fix the transgression?
a. Rites of purification
b. Rites of intensification
c. Rites of passage
d. Magical rituals
e. Rites of rebellion
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A culturally prescribed avoidance is a(n)
a. prohibition.
b. taboo.
c. avoidance.
d. mana.
e. ritual law.
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The Shamanic Complex is
a. a psychological state in which the shaman is focused intensely on healing.
b. the household and apprentices, as well as shaman, involved in healing.
c. the market of magical and sorcery items that the patient must purchase for healing.
d. the interrelationship of the shaman, patient, and community.
e. a geographical area in which the shaman lives " believed to be a powerful symbolic field.
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Ju/"hoansi healers possess the powerful healing force called n/um, which generally remains dormant in a healer until an effort is made to activate. Among the ways to activate n/um are all of the following except:
a. solo singing.
b. trance dance.
c. use of hallucinogens.
d. instrument playing.
e. medicinal curing ceremony.
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From his work with Conibo shamans, Michael Harner argues that
a. anthropologists have seriously underestimated the significance of the shamanistic experience on Amazonian Indian ideologies and practices.
b. anthropology understands shamanism quite well and has been able to contribute to its preservation worldwide.
c. the hallucinogenic drugs that the Conibo shamans use are extremely powerful and should not be generally available to the uninitiated.
d. shamanism should be used in daily American life because it would alleviate most of the psychosomatic illnesses that currently affect Americans.
e. we need urgent worldwide action to save the shamans because they are being targeted by poor economic policies globally.
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Which of the following is not a major form of establishing spiritual lineage?
a. Apprenticeship personally to a religious leader, as among Sufis
b. Election by religious elders, as among Catholics
c. Following a new charismatic prophet, as among the Raelians
d. Seeking a divinely appointed individual through revelation, as among Tibetan Buddhists
e. Claiming biological descent from a common ancestor, as among Israelites
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The widespread occurrence of shamanism and the remarkable similarities between shamanistic traditions wherever found are consequences of
a. culture.
b. universal neurological inheritance.
c. similar ecclesiastical organization.
d. diffusion.
e. effects of hallucinatory drugs.
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Chan monastics discussed in this chapter's Biocultural Connection are in the country of
a. Cambodia.
b. India.
c. Taiwan.
d. Thailand.
e. Nepal.
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Which of the following is not a change that affects women who become a Chan monastic?
a. They devote themselves to their families unselfishly
b. They begin to refer to each other as "brother"
c. They reduce their attachment to worldly things, such as music
d. They eat sparsely and lose weight
e. They shave their heads
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A full-time religious specialist formally recognized for his or her role in guiding the religious practices of others is called a(n)
a. shaman.
b. priest or priestess.
c. pastor.
d. spiritual guide.
e. preacher.
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The major difference between animism and animatism has to do with whether the supernatural force that occupies an entity is
a. personal or impersonal and without identity.
b. natural or supernatural.
c. a god or an ancestral spirit.
d. a priest or a shaman.
e. an example of witchcraft or of divination.
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If religious belief reflects the structure of society, in which types of society would you expect to find widespread belief in ancestral spirits?
a. Those in which descent groups play a major role in social organization
b. Those that have a disproportionately large number of old people
c. Those that have a disproportionately large number of young people
d. Those in which neolocal marital residence is the rule
e. Those with egocentric systems such as the kindred
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A people's collection of gods and goddesses is called a(n)
a. mana.
b. collective.
c. pantheon.
d. fetish.
e. altar.
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Belief in _____ is found in societies in which women make a major contribution to the economy and are relatively equal to men in power and authority.
a. mana
b. gods
c. goddesses
d. fetishes
e. ancestral spirits
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A sacred narrative that explains the fundamentals of human existence is called a(n)
a. legend.
b. parable.
c. religious text.
d. ritual.
e. myth.
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A holistic spiritual worldview that is found in egalitarian societies and which permeates all daily activities is called
a. positivistic.
b. spiritualistic.
c. naturalistic.
d. monistic.
e. dualistic.
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Which of the following is least likely to be extensively involved in formal religious beliefs and activities?
a. Horticulturalists in a tropical rain forest environment
b. Members of food-foraging societies with limited scientific knowledge
c. Peasants in a feudal society
d. Members of lower classes in an urban-industrial society
e. Wealthy members of urban-industrial societies with advanced scientific knowledge
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Religion serves various functions in society, including each of the following except:
a. it provides a path of hope.
b. it unites people worldwide in a belief system.
c. it provides moral guidelines for personal conduct.
d. it provides an orderly view of the universe.
e. reinforces community values.
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All of the following constitute a definition of religion except:
a. a means by which people deal with things beyond their control.
b. a group of associated ceremonial practices.
c. a system by which people interpret aspects of the universe.
d. a sacred narrative that explains our origin.
e. an organized system of ideas.
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Anthropology examines spirituality and religion in terms of the society's
a. traditions.
b. expectations.
c. worldview.
d. belief systems.
e. sacred places.
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What is nonviolent resistance, and what role has it played in worldwide conflict over more recent years?
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Discuss the history of genocide from an anthropological perspective.
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Why do wars occur? Is the need to wage war an instinctive feature of the human personality?
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What are the arguments that support the view that humans are innately warlike?
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What role can anthropology play in dispute resolution? What perspectives does this discipline have that can help in negotiating understanding between cultures?
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How is authority delegated differently in different types of states?
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Explain the difference of internalized controls in comparison to externalized controls when maintaining political order in society.
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Discuss the relationship between gender and political leadership, and use the example of the Igbo to illustrate the effect that imposition of the Western system of the state has had on women's political roles.
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Why do you think religion is so often part of legitimate political authority?
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Commentators have called the latter part of the 20th century the era of the re-emergence of nationalism. Using your text's distinction between "nation" and "state," consider why and how nationalism or ethnicity has reappeared on the global scene.
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Compare and contrast political organization in bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
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How is centralized political power different from uncentralized? Consider your own community and family life: how are both of these exhibited also in your daily life?
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Choose two cultural groups that pertain to different types of political organization, and describe how their political structure affects social and economic life.
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Although they are distinct along various lines, many anthropologists argue that the band functions quite similarly to a nuclear family. Do you agree with this? Why or why not? Cite examples to support your opinion.
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Power is part of all types of social relations. Discuss what power is and how it is used differentially across societies.
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How can diplomacy be used to negotiate peace?
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What is genocide? Give an example and discuss.
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Describe what is meant by an "ideology of aggression."
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Who are thought to be supplying Somali pirates with arms and supplies, and why?
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Give two reasons why aggressive wars may occur.
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What role can anthropologists play in dispute resolutions? Discuss the example provided in your text.
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Describe an Inuit song duel.
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What is the Native American "talking circle"?
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Distinguish between externalized and internalized controls, giving examples of each.
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Explain the significance of Queen Victoria's rule as monarch in comparison to other culturally typical gender-related political leadership roles.
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What is the relationship between legitimacy and authority?
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What are the distinctions between a nation and a state?
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Explain the differences and similarities between chiefdoms and states.
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Describe the role of the paramount chief in society.
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Discuss the tribal leadership of the Melanesian Big Man.