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

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Question #1
Who are the amani?
A.   sacred ancestors
B.   investors
C.   strange neighbors
D.   enemies
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.   scientific
B.   medical
C.   famine
D.   gastronomic
Question #4
How is this funeral rite a way that the Fore exercise control over their fate?
A.   the Fore become Gods
B.   the ancestors will then assist the living
C.   the dead become zombies
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 married; the unmarried
C.   women; men
D.   the elderly; the young
Question #6
Gastronomic
A.   Cultural cooking and eating
B.   The study of how diseases spread
C.   Eating your own dead
D.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
Question #7
Endocannibalism
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   Eating your own dead
C.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
D.   Proteins that causes kuru
Question #8
Epidemiology
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 #9
Transumption
A.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
B.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
C.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
D.   People who eat their own dead
Question #10
Prions
A.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
B.   Proteins that causes kuru
C.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
D.   Death ritual intended for Buddhist monks; accrues good karma by allowing their flesh to be eaten by vultures
Question #11
Endocannibalistic anthropophagers
A.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
B.   Eating your own dead
C.   The study of how diseases spread
D.   People who eat their own dead
Question #12
Death ritual
A.   People who eat their own dead
B.   The study of how diseases spread
C.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
D.   Proteins that causes kuru
Question #13
Mummification
A.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
B.   People who eat their own dead
C.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
D.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
Question #14
Tibetan Sky Burial
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.   Proteins that causes kuru
D.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
Question #15
In the Fore worldview, how many souls does a person have?
A.   3
B.   7
C.   1
D.   5
Question #16
By eating their loves ones, the Fore receive ___________.
A.   blessings
B.   immortality
C.   psychic powers
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 chicken egg
B.   a man's heart
C.   the burial chamber
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.   ghosts; spirits
C.   enemies; strangers
D.   angels; demons
Question #19
What causes kuru?
A.   cannibalism
B.   prions
C.   a virus
D.   a bacteria
Question #20
Eating human flesh does not cause disease, eating ________ flesh causes disease.           
A.   cow
B.   living
C.   diseased
D.   a stranger's
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.   reincarnation
C.   the return of Christ
D.   the funeral pyre
Question #23
Anthropologists are not interested in making _________ judgements or in creating a cultural ___________.             
A.   moral; hierarchy
B.   scientific; analysis
C.   academic; ethnography
Question #24
Because primarily women died from kuru, men needed to complete _______.
A.   male-only rituals
B.   tasks that were traditionally reserved for women
C.   shorter marriages
D.   the census taking without them
Question #25
After eating diseased flesh, how long did it take for a person to show symptoms?
A.   many years
B.   they appear immediately
C.   2 hours
D.   1 week

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