Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  The Catholic church has tried to endorse the non-religious traditions associated with Days of the Dead 
B)  The reciprocal economy associated with the holiday has evolved to become slightly more amenable to consumer capitalism, though this evolution is very slight. 
C)  Rapid population growth 
D)  All of the above

Question 2

Full funeral rites among the Berawan usually last

Accepted Answer

A)  about four days. 
B)  anywhere from 10 days to 28 days, but rarely exceed a lunar cycle. 
C)  about a "season," based on the growing cycles of rice-approximately three and a half months. 
D)  at least eight to nine months, though they could continue for years depending upon the circumstances.

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Metcalf asserts that the anthropological focus on the "exotic"

Accepted Answer

A)  is precariously close to the sensational, and is therefore a threat to the respectability of the discipline. 
B)  is still an important part of anthropology, and for good reason. 
C)  is merely a popular image of the discipline, having little to do with the actual practice. 
D)  assumes an evolutionary hierarchy of civilization.

Question 5

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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:

Accepted Answer

A)  The wishes of family can override the wishes of the brain dead individual 
B)  Organ donation is less widely accepted and is not assumed as a norm or the right thing to do 
C)  The family of the brain dead individual is not bothered as much 
D)  Physicians are not required to bring up the issue of organ donation

Question 7

Haitians refer to their religion as

Accepted Answer

A)  Voodoo. 
B)  Vodou. 
C)  "serving the spirits." 
D)  Bondye.

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

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,

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Refreshments are offered as "con conjianza" or offerings of trust. 
B)  Food represents shared plenty, but also shared responsibility of providing food; there are rigid guidelines that mandate that all family members regardless of age or ability must participate in communal making of food. 
C)  Offering food reaffirms that both the living and the dead belong to a single existential and moral universe, as supernatural and mortal beings are both sharing from the same pot. 
D)  Food propitiates visitors and ghosts, functioning as a sort of communion between the sacred and the profane, among friend, family member, and neighbor.

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  believe that the fate of the body provides a model for the fate of the soul. 
B)  are more concerned with safeguarding the living from "death pollution" than with the fate of the 
dead person's soul. 
C)  believe that the soul is forever bonded to the body of the deceased, and therefore the remains must be placed in a suitable "eternal home." 
D)  believe that the second burial is akin to a the "birth" of the deceased person's soul as it is now free to animate a new life.

Question 14

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

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.