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

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Question #1
Who are the amani?
A.   enemies
B.   sacred ancestors
C.   investors
D.   strange neighbors
Question #2
Which gender is responsible for butchering meat in this society?
A.   men
B.   women
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.   famine
B.   medical
C.   gastronomic
D.   scientific
Question #4
How is this funeral rite a way that the Fore exercise control over their fate?
A.   the dead become zombies
B.   the Fore can tell the future
C.   the Fore become Gods
D.   the ancestors will then assist the living
Question #5
_______ are the least vulnerable to bad fortune and _______ are the most vulnerable in this society.
A.   women; men
B.   the young; the elderly
C.   the elderly; the young
D.   the married; the unmarried
Question #6
Gastronomic
A.   Eating your own dead
B.   Cultural cooking and eating
C.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
D.   The study of how diseases spread
Question #7
Endocannibalism
A.   Eating your own dead
B.   The study of how diseases spread
C.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
D.   Proteins that causes kuru
Question #8
Epidemiology
A.   Proteins that causes kuru
B.   The study of how diseases spread
C.   People who eat their own dead
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.   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 #10
Prions
A.   Proteins that causes kuru
B.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
C.   Death ritual intended for Buddhist monks; accrues good karma by allowing their flesh to be eaten by vultures
D.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
Question #11
Endocannibalistic anthropophagers
A.   Eating your own dead
B.   The study of how diseases spread
C.   People who eat their own dead
D.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
Question #12
Death ritual
A.   People who eat their own dead
B.   Proteins that causes kuru
C.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
D.   The study of how diseases spread
Question #13
Mummification
A.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
B.   People who eat their own dead
C.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
D.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
Question #14
Tibetan Sky Burial
A.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
B.   Death ritual intended for Buddhist monks; accrues good karma by allowing their flesh to be eaten by vultures
C.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
D.   Proteins that causes kuru
Question #15
In the Fore worldview, how many souls does a person have?
A.   1
B.   3
C.   7
D.   5
Question #16
By eating their loves ones, the Fore receive ___________.
A.   blessings
B.   psychic powers
C.   immortality
D.   curses
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 woman's womb
B.   a chicken egg
C.   a man's heart
D.   the burial chamber
Question #18
The Fore understand that a decomposing body will be eaten by _______ or ________ if it isn't eaten by loved ones.
A.   ghosts; spirits
B.   angels; demons
C.   maggots; worms
D.   enemies; strangers
Question #19
What causes kuru?
A.   cannibalism
B.   a virus
C.   a bacteria
D.   prions
Question #20
Eating human flesh does not cause disease, eating ________ flesh causes disease.           
A.   living
B.   a stranger's
C.   cow
D.   diseased
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.   eating
B.   the funeral pyre
C.   reincarnation
D.   the return of Christ
Question #23
Anthropologists are not interested in making _________ judgements or in creating a cultural ___________.             
A.   moral; hierarchy
B.   academic; ethnography
C.   scientific; analysis
Question #24
Because primarily women died from kuru, men needed to complete _______.
A.   the census taking without them
B.   shorter marriages
C.   tasks that were traditionally reserved for women
D.   male-only rituals
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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