Exam 6: Illness, Healing, and Religion

When participants describe their healing experiences at Burning Man, majority of responses included in Gilmore's article mention components of the concept of communitas as most influential or directly related to their healing experiences.

Despite its modernity and state-of-the-art equipment, MCMC in Merced, California deals with economic problems which

All of the following are ways that "zar" has modernized and adapted with Sudanese culture EXCEPT:

What are principles used by the Curandero/as interviewed in De La Portilla's study that dually serve to help Mexican Americans in San Antonio with the acculturation process?

Because of negative experiences with Western medicine in the past, the Hmong-American Lee family regarded a visit to the hospital as the last resort.

All participants in the Burning Man Festival experience healing, rites of passage, a liminal space, and communitas.

For the Curandero/as participating in De la Portilla's study, the body has all of the following roles in healing EXCEPT:

Ethnomedicine, as defined by the editors of this book, includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Incidences of disease or illness may bridge across the classifications of personalistic and naturalistic.

The concept of Communitas, as described by Turner and utilized in Gilmore's analysis of Burning Man includes all of the following components EXCEPT:

According to Aurthur Klienman's definition of illness as culturally constructed discussed by De La Portilla, which of the following factors contributes to manifested physical symptoms?

The Western medical system considers economic, political, and environmental factors in illness treatment.

Broundaries between the three areas of Curandisimo are strict and curandero/as generally stick to one methodology primarily.

According to Foster, naturalistic etiologies have multiple levels of causality while personalistic etiologies are limited to one level of causality.

Historically epilepsy has been attributed to

Many studies have concluded that Hmong mothers share especially strong bonds with their children.

Gilmore draws upon Victor Truner's components of "rites of passage" to analyze the Burning Man Festival. These components are: A(1) Ritualized journey to a (2) specific culturally imbued geographic location intended to (3) connect .individuals to a collective experience of (4) something beyond their ordinary existence, something perhaps sacred, transcendent, healing, or transformative, however, the individuals and communities involved choose to conceive those ideas and that (5) can emerge in either religious or secular contexts. B(1) Ritualized journey to a (2) specific culturally imbued geographic or nonexistent metaphoric .location intended to (3) connect individuals to a collective experience of (4) something beyond their ordinary existence, something perhaps sacred, transcendent, healing, or transformative, however, the individuals and communities involved choose to conceive those ideas and that (5) can emerge in only religious contexts.

According to Kenyon's research on "zar" possessions in Sudan, all of the following demographics show presence of "zar" beliefs or practices EXCEPT:

Spirits involved in "zar" are constant, but the prevalience with which they appear in posessions is fluid and thought to be reactive to environmental factors.

Experiences in the refugee camp in Thailand did not shake Foua and Nao Kao's faith in traditional Hmong medicine but did