Question 1

When reading an ethnography about the Fore what is the difference between Fore society and Fore culture?

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Question 2

Think of a political and economic issue that you have read about that has occurred in another part of the world.How would you describe and analyze this event from an ethnocentric viewpoint and from a cultural relativistic viewpoint?

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Question 3

We can approach the study and understanding of other peoples through both etic and emic analysis.What is the essential difference between these two views? How does each contribute to our understanding of human societies?

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Question 4

What is the nature of ethnographic research? How does it differ from research in other disciplines?

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Question 5

Give some examples of how brain function can produce what are prescribed as religious experiences.

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Question 6

"Culture gives meaning to reality." What does this mean? Give some examples.

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Question 7

How does the study of kuru among the Fore of New Guinea illustrate the concept of holism?

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Question 8

How does the theory of mind relate to the phenomenon of animism?

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Question 9

What criteria would you use in deciding whether or not a particular cultural practice should be eliminated in apparent contradiction of cultural relativism?

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Question 10

Define the four fields of anthropology.How does each relate to the study of religion?

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Question 11

What is meant by the term "culture area"? What do societies in the same culture area tend to have in common? Why?

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Question 12

Compare and contrast the essential concept of the evolutionary,Marxist,functional,interpretative,and psychosocial approaches to the study of religion.Which scholars are associated with each of these approaches?

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Question 13

Within the analytic definition of religion,what is contained within the narrative,ritual,and ethnical dimensions?

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Question 14

Two early approaches to the study of religion were the evolutionary approach of Tyler and Frazer and the psychosocial approach of Sigmund Freud.What are the essential features of these two approaches?

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Question 15

What are some of the important differences in social structure among peoples practicing different food-getting strategies?

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Question 16

Which of the definitions of religion discussed in the book do you like the best? Why? How would you personally define the term religion?

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Question 17

What are the differences between modernity and postmodernism?

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Question 18

Is the concept of universal human rights consistent with the concept of cultural relativism? Why or why not?

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Question 19

How does the study of anthropology differ from sociology and psychology?

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Question 20

An essentialist definition of religions sees religions as dealing with the realm of the sacred supernatural.What is mean by the terms sacred and supernatural?

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Quiz 1: The Anthropological Study of Religion