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Using your own words, provide short answers for the following questions. You may use your book to help you understand, but write your own interpretation and give examples from your own culture (20 points).




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Give Short Answers to the Following Questions:

1. Name different types of supernatural and describe what makes them different

2. What are revitalization movements? Describe an example from the book.

3. Why are supernatural forces and natural forces impossible to compare?

4. What are simulation and divination? How do people in American society practive divination? Why do the Naskapi consult a diviner?

5. What are some of the theories which explain why religion is universal? Give an example of Malinowski's theory.

6. Define prayer, magic, and taboo.

7. How does music vary du3 to cultural complexity? Compare that to the findings by John Fischer on art.

8. Compare the views on mythology by Clyde Kluckhohn, Edward Tylor, and Joseph Campbell. Which seems the most reliable to you and why?

9. How does cultural contact change the artistic practices of a society? Give an example from your own culture.

10. What are urban legends? What function do they play in modern society? Describe an example from your own culture?


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