ANTHRO102 4.11 Quiz – Cannibalism

Question 1 Who receives the aona?

the enemy

the favorite child

the favorite parent

the spouse

Question 2Which gender is responsible for butchering meat in this society?

women

men

Question 3How do ritual participants purify their bodies after this ritual is complete (select 2)? 

bathing in alcohol

chewing cleansing leaves

chanting for 2 days

walking through ritual steam

Question 4According to Whitfield, Pako, Collinge, and Alpers, early anthropologists made the mistake of claiming that the Fore at their own dead purely for ___________ reasons.

gastronomic

medical  

famine

scientific

Question 5What is the bagina?

the poisonous atmosphere

a commotion

the living landscape

the wombs of women

Question 6Match the terms to their definitions:

Gastronomic

Endocannibalism

Epidemiology

Transumption

Prions        

Endocannibalistic anthropophagers

Death ritual

Mummification

Tibetan Sky Burial

 Question 7In the Fore worldview, how many souls does a person have?

3  

7

5

1

Question 8By eating their loves ones, the Fore receive ___________.    

immortality

blessings  

psychic powers

curses

Question 9What, in the Fore view, is the strongest vessel that can be used to contain the negative powers of a decomposing body?  

a woman’s womb

the burial chamber

a man’s heart

a chicken egg

Question 10The Fore understand that a decomposing body will be eaten by _______ or ________ if it isn’t eaten by loved ones.

angels; demons  

maggots; worms  

ghosts; spirits

enemies; strangers

Question 11What causes kuru?

cannibalism

prions

a virus

a bacteria

 

Question 12Eating human flesh does not cause disease, eating ________ flesh causes disease.    

diseased

cow

a stranger’s  

living

 Question 13Different cultures allow individuals to mourn differently. These cultural beliefs and practices can sometimes be ________ and sometimes they can be empowering. Often, they are both at the same time. 

restricting

random

spontaneous

Question 14One of the primary ways that Ebola spread quickly and widely in West Africa fro 2013-2016 was because the local death rituals allowed loved one to touch the bodies when they were very ________.

innoculated

contagious  

immune

Question 15Anthropologists are not interested in making _________ judgements or in creating a cultural ___________.  

academic; ethnography

moral; hierarchy  

scientific; analysis

Question 16 After eating diseased flesh, how long did it take for a person to show symptoms?

they appear immediately

many years

1 week

2 hours

Question 17 How do the Fore understand the cause of kuru?

as demonic

through Western medicine

sorcery

as the result of their sins