Anthropology 5
Final Study Guide
Reread all the online Powerpoints! Review your notes! All the below words and concepts will show up on the Final (100 questions).
Ch 7 Magic and Divination
*Illusion vs Magic vs Sorcery
*Diff between Hypothesis and Theory
*The Golden Bough and the following rules of Magic:
-Law of Similarity
-Homeopathic Magic
-Image Magic
-Increase Rite
-Law of Contagion
*What makes a good spell
*Difference between Magic and *These Divination categories:
-Apantomancy
-Astrology
-Necromancy
-Oneiromancy
-Ordeals
-Scapulamancy
-Tasseology
*These categories of Divination:
-Inspirational Divination
-Noninspirational Divination
-Fortuitous Divination
-Deliberate Divination
*Definition of Science
Ch 8 Ghosts, Souls and Death
*Difference between Soul and Ghost
*Transmigration vs. Reincarnation
*Karma – difference between Buddhist and Hindu versions
*Purgatory
*Ancestor Worship
*Geomancy
*Vampire
*Zombie
*The Serpent and the Rainbow – who wrote it, what culture it came from, and what it was about
*Zombie Powder – what’s it made of and what’s it supposed to do
*Burial – most common method worldwide
*Relic
*Cremation – which culture practices this?
*Endocannibalistic anthropophagers - which culture practices this?
*Exposure – where doe Sky Burial come from?
*Forensic Anthropologists - what do they do?
*Secondary Burial – which culture practices this?
Ch 9 Gods and Spirits
*Avatar
*Misogynist
*Atheism vs. Agnosticism
*Omnipotent
*Omniscient
*Omnibenevolent
*Monotheism
*Polytheism
*Pantheon
*Supreme God –know some examples
*Attribute God – know some examples
*Emile Durkheim’s God theory
*Robin Horton’s God theory
*What ascribed and achieved status has to do with a culture’s Gods
*Sigmund Freud’s God theory
*Anthropomorphic
*Difference between God and Spirit
*Jinn
*Angel
General
*Demon
Films and Clips:
*Incubi and Succubai
-The Oracle of Delphi
*Shrines – know examples
Ch. 10 Witchcraft
*Witchcraft
*Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the
Azande
*Azande Witchcraft vs.Navaho Witchcraft
*Malleus Maleficarum
*Corpse Powder
*Western witchcraft Timeline:
-Edict of Milan
-Inquisitions
-Papal Inquisition
-Ad Extirpanda
-Salem
-King James I of Scotland
-Constantine I
-Heresy
*The Evil Eye
*Satanism
-Church of Satan
-Anton Szandor La Vey
-Hedonism
-Sigil of Baphomet
-Sky Burial – Tibet
-Secondary Burial - Malaysia
-Zombie Ethnographic Film
(review your notes!)
-Spirited Away clip – Pop culture examples of Kami
-Azande vs Navaho Witchcraft, and how the
video examples of the Gnani Village (Ghana),
the Zimbabwe witchdoctor, and the Sonora
Witches Market (Mexico) are similar/different
-Branch Davidians – Waco, Texas
-Cargo Cults
-Moonies, Diane Benscoter TED talk
-Jonestown
-Heaven’s Gate and Marshall Applewhite
-Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (Texas)
Ch. 11 New Religious Movements
*Discovery vs Invention vs Diffusion vs Stimulus Diffusion (Gentle Agents of Change)
*Acculturation vs Assimilation (More Severe Agents of Change)
*Syncretism – know in-class examples
*Diaspora
*Haitian Vodou
*Revitalization Movement
-Nativistic Movement
-Revivalistic Movement
General
-Millenarian Movement
Pertinent Examples:
-Messianic Movement
-Kuru and Sorcery
*Wicca - Athame and Chalice
-Why does Magic work?
*Denomination vs Sect vs Cult
*High demand religion
-The Oracle of Delphi
*Choice Fatigue
-Concepts of the Soul from different cultures
*Fundamentalism
-Determining Death: Today vs Ancient Egypt
-Totalism
-Death Rituals: Today vs. 19th century
-Scripturalism
-Origins of Halloween – Samhain
-Traditioning
-Examples of Gods and Spirits from class/ppt
-Know how an Otiose God and a Supreme
God can be different. Know examples of both.
-Cultural Examples of Revitalization
movements
-Examples of UFO Religions
-Examples of High Demand Religions