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.   gastronomic
B.   famine
C.   scientific
D.   medical
Question #4
How is this funeral rite a way that the Fore exercise control over their fate?
A.   the Fore become Gods
B.   the Fore can tell the future
C.   the ancestors will then assist the living
D.   the dead become zombies
Question #5
_______ are the least vulnerable to bad fortune and _______ are the most vulnerable in this society.
A.   the young; the elderly
B.   women; men
C.   the elderly; the young
D.   the married; the unmarried
Question #6
Gastronomic
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
C.   Cultural cooking and eating
D.   Eating your own dead
Question #7
Endocannibalism
A.   Eating your own dead
B.   Proteins that causes kuru
C.   The study of how diseases spread
D.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
Question #8
Epidemiology
A.   People who eat their own dead
B.   A ritual to help a community come to terms with a loss
C.   The study of how diseases spread
D.   Proteins that causes kuru
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.   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 #11
Endocannibalistic anthropophagers
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   People who eat their own dead
C.   Eating your own dead
D.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
Question #12
Death ritual
A.   The study of how diseases spread
B.   People who eat their own dead
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.   Transferring the souls of a loved one into the afterlife by eating their body
C.   People who eat their own dead
D.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
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.   Ancient Egyptian death ritual
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.   3
B.   5
C.   1
D.   7
Question #16
By eating their loves ones, the Fore receive ___________.
A.   blessings
B.   curses
C.   immortality
D.   psychic powers
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.   ghosts; spirits
B.   enemies; strangers
C.   angels; demons
D.   maggots; worms
Question #19
What causes kuru?
A.   prions
B.   cannibalism
C.   a bacteria
D.   a virus
Question #20
Eating human flesh does not cause disease, eating ________ flesh causes disease.           
A.   diseased
B.   a stranger's
C.   cow
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.   innoculated
B.   contagious
C.   immune
Question #22
In some Christian communities, the body should stay intact in preparation for _______.
A.   the funeral pyre
B.   reincarnation
C.   the return of Christ
D.   eating
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.   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.   1 week
B.   2 hours
C.   many years
D.   they appear immediately

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