FINAL STUDY GUIDE CULTURAL

SUMMER 2007 12:45 2:45

1) The Asante recognize inheritance through the mothers line, thus they are referred to as being what?
Matrilineal
2) Define decent groups
They group same generation or same level on a kinship with same ancestor. For Ex. Children of the same
father/mother.
3) A totem is?
A totem is an ancestral relative.
4) Members of a moiety organize themselves how?
. Moiety is a descent group that coexists with only one other descent group within a society. In such cases
the community usually has unilineal descent, either patrilineal or matrilineal so that any individual belongs
to one of the moiety groups by birth. Also Marriages take place between members of different moieties.
5) A person in a system of bilateral descent inherits from who?
. Descendants inherit from both sides of their family as equal.
6) Exogamy is?
Exogamy is to marry outside of your own community.
7) The system of kinship terminology used by Anglo-Americans is?
Eskimo
8) Anthropologists have divided supernatural beings into catagories, what are they?
Anthropologists dont do a big division of supernatural beings, the only requisite is of people belief in them
is Animism and are subject of study by anthropologists
9) If religious belief reflects the structure of society, in which types of society would you expect to find
widespread belief in ancestral spirits?
Any society that needs political and social control that puts emphasis on hierarchy of the lineage
10) Give examples of animism as opposed to animatism.
Obi Wan Kenobi ghost in Star Wars is Animism compared to the jedi force that is Animatism.
Animism: spirit being with personality
Animatism: impersonal power.
11) Ceremonies such as bar mitzvahs, elaborate wedding ceremonies, baby showers, and graduation parties
that help individuals make major changes in their lives are referred to as rites of what?
Rites of Passage
12) Many magical incantations require the use of fingernail clippings of the intended victim. This is an
example of what sort of magic
Sympathetic magic
13) Religion, magic, and witchcraft are similar in which ways?
Religion and magic are almost the same thing: Religion is scripted and magic is Impromptu
Witchcraft considers any kind of magic that causes harm. They are similar in the level of no scientific
explanation.

14) What are the psychological functions of religion?

Answer the unanswerable, know the unknowable, control of the uncontrollable, relationship with belied
and wellness. Religion gives us solidarity.
15) An anthropological aim of studying religion is to find out what?
Diverse ways that people deal with and what religion does for them.
16) Divination, a magical practice used to obtain information from a supernatural authority, is used
primarily where?
When people need answers, which answers are beyond their reach.
17)What is polytheism?
Polytheism is the worship of multiple deities that control aspects of nature.
18) An origin myth typically contains such elements as?
Origin myth contains elements that explain natural effects by supernatural causes
19) religion is in evidence in the archaeology at about how old?
Since the Neanderthal burials
20) The observation that all cultures include activities which provide aesthetic pleasure suggests that?
Art helps communicate feelings, and is also enjoyable
21) When anthropologists use the term tale, What do they mean?
Tale is a story that has a teching.
22) The field of ethnomusicology studies what aspects of music?
Studies music in cultural perspective.
23) Any three dimensional product of the creative imagination may be called?
sculpture
24) What are the important functions of music as an art form in all societies?
Music is the fusion of art as being esthetic and folklore, it might include religion practices.
25) Expressive culture is in evidence in the archaeology at about how old?
60 000 thousan years old
26)A shaman is what kind of religious specialist?.
A Part time specialist.
27) A ceremony in Scotland which occurs in the middle of winter, involving the lighting of
bonfires to attract the sun, may be considered what kind of rite?
Rite of solidarity
28)Most societies use witches as what?
healers
29)Revitalization movements are found where?
Places that need a reform, were there is suppressed people
30) The word "myth" as used by anthropologists means what?.
Myth is a common shared experience a story with a teaching considered Sacred Knowledge.
31) The belief in a personal soul that can survive separate from the body is a cultural universal, yes or no?.

YES
32) In the United States of America have successfully separated religion and political and
judicial power.
NO
33)What are the three stages of a crisis rites also known as rites of passage?
Separation, liminality and incorporation.

Tribal societies politics

Earliest signs of religion
Hw common is the adorment of the body
Hw early we see art form ?
Why do we study migration?
Contagious magic
Divination
Focus of art study
Earliest form of political organization
Example of live cycle ritual
Animism animatism
Current definition of religion
Estethics
Benefits of religion
Who created religion>?