Reference no: EM131071517

1. Attitudes towards the dead and practices of mourning are often strongly indicative of social customs in societies.

True/False

2. Haitians refer to their religion as
A. Vodou
B. "serving the spirits"
C. Bondye
D. Voodoo

3. Haitians who "serve the spirits" refer to themselves as Catholics.

True/False

4. McCarthy Brown notes that Africa is a powerful concept in Voodoo - to say that a spirit is frangine is to say that
A. the spirit is dark and malicious with tremendous force
B. the spirit is "truly African" and, therefore, is good, ancient, and proper
C. the spirit has risen up from the heathenism of African traditions
D. the spirit has departed to go back to Africa

5. Haitian voodoo rituals
A. are fairly institutionalized, according to Catholic tradition
B. fall into three major categories
C. are held in temples, or ounfos, that dot the countryside all over the island
D. vary widely, especially from the rural to the urban setting

6.The various lwa, or spirits, have essentially been fitted into Haitian Catholicism as a replacement of the holy trinity.

TRUE/FALSE

7. The Berawan people of north-central Borneo are terrified by the American practice of keeping a massive standing army of potential zombies in our mists.

TRUE/FALSE

8. According to Metcalf, an essential, and somewhat overlooked effect of the anthropological modus operandi is
A. the resulting amplification of the exoticism of the practices and/or the group being observed
B. the change that the anthropologist's presence brings about in the community she/he is studying
C. how it can turn the anthropologist's gaze back toward his own practices as strange and "exotic"
D. the extreme ethnocentrism that it encourages

9. The Berawan people practice secondary burial, but they don't actually bury the dead at all.

TRUE/FALSE

10. After having explored the "exotic" Berawan death ways, Metcalf turned his focus back toward American death ways, and found
A. that the two different approaches are actually very similar when the observer is able to see through the details
B. them to be extremely mild and conservative in comparison
C. that the seemingly arbitrary approach toward death in the United States is much more comprehensive in light of Berawan theories of death
D. he was left with a feeling of estrangement when he tried to find a correlation between popular ideas about death and American funerary practices

11. Cannibalism is a taboo that has historically been socially tied to racism and exploitation.

TRUE/FALSE

12. All of the following forms of cannibalism were practiced in Europe EXCEPT
A. importing exotic corpses from Egypt to eat
B. drinking of blood as a remedy for epileptics
C. eating the smoked flesh of criminals
D. funerary or mourning rites

13. In Oaxaca, visitors and outsiders to the Day of the Dead celebrations are often somewhat off put by the celebratory, jovial nature with which death is treated thinking that celebrations are dangerous or sacrilegious.

TRUE/FALSE

13In Oaxaca, people spare no expense when it comes to honoring the dead; this is evidenced in an upsurge in use of pawn shops in the month of October
TRUE/FALSE

14. Most healthcare practitioners in Lock's research viewed brain death as death for all purposes.

TRUE/FALSE

15 .According to Lock's article on determining brain death, tests run in ICU units to determine and diagnose brain death includes
-physical tests of reflexes such as pin pricks to the hands and feet, pressure applied to finger/toenails, touching of the eye with a swab, or inducing coughing
-in some cases, EEG monitoring
-in some cases, MRI and/or blood flow monitoring
-all of these