Exam 8: Death, Ancestors, Ghosts, and Souls

What are ways that the traditional Oaxacan Days of the Dead festivities have evolved over time?

Full funeral rites among the Berawan usually last

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

Metcalf asserts that the anthropological focus on the "exotic"

The Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) mandates that "all functions of the entire brain" should have ceased functioning before brain death is declared, and that "imminent" biological death is a sufficient criterion for organ donation.

All of the following are ways that Japanese diagnosis of brain death and the decision to harvest organs differ from North America and Western Europe EXCEPT:

Haitians refer to their religion as

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

In 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.

Certain foods are linked to particular religious holidays in Oaxaca. Mole is associated with Days of the Dead while King cake is associated with Epiphany,

All of the following are ways community and foods are symbolically linked during days of the dead discussed in Norget's article EXCEPT:

"Magic" is a derogative term used by Voodoo practitioners to refer to others whom they feel are "serving the spirits" in a defiled manner.

In the early part of the century, Robert Hertz, relying upon traveler's accounts of the peoples of central Borneo, hypothesized that people who practice secondary burial

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

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

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

The four stages of funerary rites among the Berawan gradually move the body farther and farther from the settlement, until finally the corpse is laid to rest in a far-removed area of the mountains where it won't be able to pollute the community of the living.