Week 13 Quiz

Which statement gives Tylor's (1871) minimum definition of religion?

Select one.

• Belief in spiritual beings, which he called animism
• Ritual action that people use to try to bring about a result directly
• A sacred story that explains how things came to be
• A deliberate, organized effort to build a more satisfying culture in a time of stress

Which list gives van Gennep's (1909) three phases of a rite of passage in order?

Select one.

• Transition, separation, incorporation
• Incorporation, transition, separation
• Separation, transition, incorporation
• Separation, incorporation, transition

In the course's illustrative rites set, a military recruit's basic training includes this step: "Basic training, where recruits are equal, stripped of former status, and bonded." Which phase is that?

Select one.

• Separation, because the recruits have left home
• Transition, the liminal middle between civilian and soldier
• Incorporation, because the recruits return with a rank
• None of van Gennep's phases, because basic training is not religious

Which term names the intense bond among people who share the liminal state of a rite of passage together?

Select one.

• Liminality
• Animism
• Incorporation
• Communitas

True or false: because the graduation in the course's illustrative rites set names no spiritual being, it cannot be a rite of passage.

True or false.

• True
• False

The course's illustrative rites set holds 6 rites, each with 3 pinned phases, and each rite has 1 transition phase. How many of the pinned phase entries are separation or incorporation?

Select one.

• 18
• 12
• 6
• 9

Malinowski observed that, in the 1910s, Trobriand Islanders used magic for one kind of fishing and not another. Which statement matches his account?

Select one.

• They used magic for dangerous open-sea fishing but not for safe lagoon fishing, because magic is used where outcomes are uncertain
• They used magic for safe lagoon fishing but not for open-sea fishing, because magic replaced their fishing skill
• They used magic for every kind of fishing, because magic and religion are the same thing
• They used magic only when they did not know how to fish, because magic shows ignorance of natural causes

Evans-Pritchard (1937) described how, in the late 1920s, a granary fell on particular people among the Azande. Which reading matches the course?

Select one.

• The Azande did not know that termites weaken wood, so witchcraft filled the gap in their knowledge
• The Azande blamed termites alone and saw nothing more to explain
• The Azande accepted that termites weakened the supports, and witchcraft answered why it fell on those people at that moment
• The Azande treated the fall as a rite of passage for the people beneath the granary

At the course's illustrative market, vendors fall into a hush as they finish setting up before the opening bell. Which term from the course's study of language best names the hush?

Select one.

• Code-switching
• Register
• Dialect
• Nonverbal communication

At the course's illustrative market, vendors call the manager's 8:00 a.m. signal "the bell", and the routine of hush, ring, and first sale repeats each market day. Which statement reads this correctly?

Select one.

• "The bell" is the vendors' own emic term, and the routine is a calendrical ritual because it marks time and moves no person to a new status
• "The bell" is an observer's etic term, and the routine is a rite of passage because it has three parts
• "The bell" is an emic term, and the routine is a rite of passage because every repeated ritual moves people between statuses
• "The bell" is an etic term, and the routine is magic because it is aimed at a good day of sales