Exam 4: Ritual

In the Zulu male puberty ceremony the boy is taken to the river and bathed.His old cloths are destroyed and he puts on new clothes and is presented to the community.This phase of a rite of passage is known as separation.

The first-fruit ceremonies of the Cahuilla of the California desert are an example of both a technological ritual and a hunting and gathering rite of intensification.

A ritual brings about illness,accident or death is called a(n):

Revitalization rituals are the same thing as healing rituals.

Among the Huichol the peyote cactus is thought to be the:

Among the !Kung San of southern Africa the marriage ceremony involves the mock forcible carrying off of the bride from her parent's hut to a specially built marriage hut and the anointing of the bride with special oils and aromatic powders.This ritual can be classified as a:

Yoruba taxi cab drivers will sacrifice an animal to the god Ogun.This is an example of a:

A ritual that focuses on the religious experience of the individual,such as possession,is called a(n):

While the textbook presents a classification of rituals,many rituals are difficult to neatly place into one category.Explain how you would classify a funeral ritual and why?

Many societies have prohibitions against eating particular foods.An example would be kashrut,the Jewish laws regarding what foods can and cannot be eaten and how they must be prepared.

The commandant to remember the Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments.Sabbath rituals are therefore prescribed rituals.

A periodic ritual is one that is:

The term tabu refers to:

Mana can be thought of as:

Examples of genital cutting performed on males include all of the following except:

Pharanoic circumcision is a type of genital alteration performed on females in many societies in North and East Africa.

A patterned act that involves the manipulation of religious objects is termed a:

An example of a secular (nonreligious)rite of passage would be a:

Exorcism is used primarily for the cure of witchcraft.

The Soyal Ceremony of the Hopi of Arizona begins on the winter solstice and marks the beginning of the Hopi ceremonial cycle.This ceremony is: