Exam 1: The Anthropological Study of Religion

All societies have clearly understood terms to label the domain of culture we call religion.

Which of the following anthropologists is most closely associated with the functionalist approach?

The approach to the study of religion that is concerned with the relationship between culture and personality and the connection between society and the individual is the:

Late nineteenth century anthropologists who saw "primitive" societies as presenting an early stage in the development of religion were using the:

A person who judges another society in terms of his or her own culture is said to be ethnocentric.

An example of an ethnography is:

The first use of the term culture in anthropology appeared in 1871 in a book written by:

The point of view that all knowledge is a human "construction," that there are multiple viewpoints and truths,and that we must be aware of our own viewpoints and biases,is referred to as:

What are some of the important differences in social structure among peoples practicing different food-getting strategies?

A study of a people's religious beliefs and rituals would be a part of the study of:

Who wrote,"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature"?

What criteria would you use in deciding whether or not a particular cultural practice should be eliminated in apparent contradiction of cultural relativism?

Which of the following might also be referred to as an ethnographer?

Is the concept of universal human rights consistent with the concept of cultural relativism? Why or why not?

The operant definition of religion proposed in this textbook includes the following characteristics:

An essentialist definition of religions sees religions as dealing with the realm of the sacred supernatural.What is mean by the terms sacred and supernatural?

Two early approaches to the study of religion were the evolutionary approach of Tyler and Frazer and the psychosocial approach of Sigmund Freud.What are the essential features of these two approaches?

Think of a political and economic issue that you have read about that has occurred in another part of the world.How would you describe and analyze this event from an ethnocentric viewpoint and from a cultural relativistic viewpoint?

An ethnography is a:

An outsider who applies his or her own cultural orientation to the analysis of another culture is performing an emic analysis.