Exam 8: Souls,ghosts,and Death

Reincarnation means that souls are reborn as animals.

From an etic perspective,the appearance of exhumed bodies thought to be vampires were actually the result of the:

The Tana Toraja separate biological and social death in that social death occurs some time after biological death.

Much of Dani behavior,including the fear of traveling outside of the village at night,is based upon their belief in the existence of:

The African Burial Ground is a Yoruba cemetery located in what is today Nigeria.

The concept of a single soul that animates the living body and leaves upon death is found in the vast majority of societies that have been studied.

The term secondary burial refers to:

All of the following statements about the African Burial Ground are correct except:

The distinction between a soul and a ghost is not always a clear one.

A ghost can best be thought of as:

Among the Yup'ik of western Alaska seals have souls.These souls are returned to the sea during an annual festival when the ________ of the seal,which contains its soul,is shoved through the hole in the ice.

In eastern European folk belief (not Hollywood folk belief)a vampire is:

In some societies souls may be acquired during one's lifetime,such as through a vision.This is found among the:

Vampires and zombies as depicted in American movies are very similar to actual ethnographic examples.

The Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos)in Mexico was a time when ghosts and evil spirits returned to take revenge on the living.

The Hmong of Laos believe that:

Burials differ in different societies in many ways.Among these is:

The term transmigration refers to:

In Japan,a distinction can be made between ancestors and those who died in more recent memory.The latter are referred to as:

A clear separation of biological and social death is found among the: