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Question 1:

Reflexivity and ________ are the two kinds of metacommunication noted by Gregory Bateson
a) prosody
b) framing
c) play
d) openness

Question 2:

________ is a cognitive boundary that marks certain behaviors as “play” or as “ordinary life.”
a) Prosody
b) Framing
c) Reflexivity
d) Play

Question 3:

The extreme codification of a set of beliefs is known as ________.
a) orthodoxy
b) myth
c) intentionality
d) authenticity

Question 4:

According to Claude Lévi Strauss, myths are organized to provide both narrative or ________ coherence and structural coherence also known as ________ coherence.
a) prosody; harmonic
b) melodic; harmonic
c) architechtural; grammatical
d) grammatical; melodic

Question 5:

________ is the ambiguous transitional state in a rite of passage in which the person or persons undergoing the ritual are outside of their ordinary social positions.
a) Communitas
b) Separation
c) Transition
d) Liminality

Question 6:

According to Anthony Wallace, minimal categories of religious behaviour associated with religions can include any of the following except ________.
a) prayer
b) physiological exercise
c) exhortation
d) a belief in demons

Question 7:

The laying of hands, in which the power of a healer enters the body of a sick person to remove or destroy an illness, is an example of ________.
a) religion
b) mana
c) animism
d) taboo

Question 8:

According to Roger Keesing, one of the ways the Kwaio of the Solomon Island maintained their culture and way of life was through ________.
a) rejecting Christianity
b) forming new, inter-island trading partnerships
c) adopting new forms of shamanism
d) converting to Buddhism

Question 9:

For congregants of the evangelical church, the Vineyard Christian Fellowship, one of the striking characteristics of the church is ________.
a) that participants are not expected to attend weekly services
b) that it fosters an intense individuality among believers
c) that it developed during a time of peace
d) that it does not profess a belief in an afterlife

Question 10:

Part-time religious practitioners who contact supernatural forces directly on behalf of individuals or groups are called ________.
a) priests
b) witches
c) shamans
d) oracle leaders

Question 11:

According to Alexander Alland art is “play with form producing some aesthetically successful transformation-representation.”
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Art is always intentionally created.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Because myths are untruths that many primitive people tell themselves, they have no real value.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Most anthropologists consider rituals to be purely sacred happenings.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

The second stage of a rite of passage is called “transition.”
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

The concept of an unstructured or minimally structured community of equal individuals is called a community.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

The Azande often consult oracles to identify a witch.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Among the Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada, one’s sense of self-understanding is rooted in notions of landscape, and their inter-relationship with land.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

Revitalization tends to happen when a society experiences radical change or oppression.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Mary Douglas argues that those accused of witchcraft are always labelled as evil outsiders.
a) True
b) False

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