Exam 31: Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible, Mary Douglas

For Douglas, creatures that are not fit for table or altar are called ________________.

For Mary Douglas, ________________________________.

Douglas calls the relationship of foods that might fit into one serving _____________ (syntagmatic or paradigmatic).

An example of a ritual in American culture is __________________________.

For Douglas, meals rank higher socially than drinks because ______________________________________.

For Douglas, the more important the occasion is, the more ____________________ (inclusive or exclusive) is the social group.

The agreement between God and the Israelites in Genesis is called the ________________________.

Which one of the following statements is true?

For Douglas, boundaries are positive because, although they divide and limit, they _______________________.

Douglas notes a continuation of the analogy between the temple and the living body in the _____________________________, described in three of the four gospels of the New Testament.

Douglas calls the relationship of individual servings of food ____________________ (syntagmatic or paradigmatic).

According to Douglas, valuing perfect physical specimens corresponds to the "perfectly bounded temple, altar and sanctuary." On a higher level, this corresponds to _________________________________________.

According to Mosaic dietary laws, abominable creatures ______________________________.

The elevated status of the _________________________, representing the firstborn of all Israel, is reflected in the special status of the sacrifice of firstlings from the Israelites' flocks and herds.

_________________________ bases his study of myth on the study of language, or linguistics.

The Mosaic dietary laws are found in the Bible in the book of __________________.

The rules of the temple that exclude humans considered unclean correspond to the dietary laws that exclude _______________________________.