Anthropology 3600 - Magic, Shamanism and Religion » Fall 2022 » Cannibalism Quiz

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Question #1
Who are the amani?
A.   sacred ancestors
B.   strange neighbors
C.   enemies
D.   investors
Question #2
Which gender is responsible for butchering meat in this society?
A.   women
B.   men
Question #3
According to Whitfield, Pako, Collinge, and Alpers, early anthropologists made the mistake of claiming that the Fore at their own dead purely for ___________ reasons.
A.   gastronomic
B.   medical
C.   scientific
D.   famine
Question #4
How is this funeral rite a way that the Fore exercise control over their fate?
A.   the dead become zombies
B.   the ancestors will then assist the living
C.   the Fore become Gods
D.   the Fore can tell the future
Question #5
_______ are the least vulnerable to bad fortune and _______ are the most vulnerable in this society.
A.   the young; the elderly
B.   the elderly; the young
C.   women; men
D.   the married; the unmarried
Question #6
Gastronomic
A.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
B.   Cultural cooking and eating
C.   Eating your own dead
D.   The study of how diseases spread
Question #7
Endocannibalism
A.   Proteins that causes kuru
B.   Eating your own dead
C.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
D.   The study of how diseases spread
Question #8
Epidemiology
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   People who eat their own dead
C.   Proteins that causes kuru
D.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
Question #9
Transumption
A.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
B.   People who eat their own dead
C.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
D.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
Question #10
Prions
A.   Death ritual intended for Buddhist monks; accrues good karma by allowing their flesh to be eaten by vultures
B.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
C.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
D.   Proteins that causes kuru
Question #11
Endocannibalistic anthropophagers
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
C.   Eating your own dead
D.   People who eat their own dead
Question #12
Death ritual
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
C.   Proteins that causes kuru
D.   People who eat their own dead
Question #13
Mummification
A.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
B.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
C.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
D.   People who eat their own dead
Question #14
Tibetan Sky Burial
A.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
B.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
C.   Proteins that causes kuru
D.   Death ritual intended for Buddhist monks; accrues good karma by allowing their flesh to be eaten by vultures
Question #15
In the Fore worldview, how many souls does a person have?
A.   1
B.   7
C.   3
D.   5
Question #16
By eating their loves ones, the Fore receive ___________.
A.   psychic powers
B.   immortality
C.   curses
D.   blessings
Question #17
What, in the Fore view, is the strongest vessel that can be used to contain the negative powers of a decomposing body?             
A.   a chicken egg
B.   the burial chamber
C.   a man's heart
D.   a woman's womb
Question #18
The Fore understand that a decomposing body will be eaten by _______ or ________ if it isn't eaten by loved ones.
A.   maggots; worms
B.   angels; demons
C.   ghosts; spirits
D.   enemies; strangers
Question #19
What causes kuru?
A.   a virus
B.   a bacteria
C.   cannibalism
D.   prions
Question #20
Eating human flesh does not cause disease, eating ________ flesh causes disease.           
A.   cow
B.   a stranger's
C.   diseased
D.   living
Question #21
One of the primary ways that Ebola spread quickly and widely in West Africa fro 2013-2016 was because the local death rituals allowed loved one to touch the bodies when they were very ________.
A.   contagious
B.   immune
C.   innoculated
Question #22
In some Christian communities, the body should stay intact in preparation for _______.
A.   reincarnation
B.   the return of Christ
C.   eating
D.   the funeral pyre
Question #23
Anthropologists are not interested in making _________ judgements or in creating a cultural ___________.             
A.   academic; ethnography
B.   scientific; analysis
C.   moral; hierarchy
Question #24
Because primarily women died from kuru, men needed to complete _______.
A.   shorter marriages
B.   the census taking without them
C.   male-only rituals
D.   tasks that were traditionally reserved for women
Question #25
After eating diseased flesh, how long did it take for a person to show symptoms?
A.   many years
B.   2 hours
C.   they appear immediately
D.   1 week

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