Deck 28: Theory: the Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner

Question 1

The _______________ dimension of a ritual involves the way an insider explains the ritual to someone outside the society.

A) positional
B) operational
C) exegetic
D) historical

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The _______________ dimension of a ritual involves the way an anthropologist, who is outside the society, records what is done in the ritual and how the participants seem to feel.

A) positional
B) operational
C) exegetic
D) historical

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The _______________ dimension of a ritual involves the way an anthropologist, who is outside the society, describes the connections between the symbols found in a ritual and other symbols found in the society and culture.

A) positional
B) operational
C) exegetic
D) historical

Answer 3

A

Question 4

According to Victor Turner, _______________ is a characteristic of rites of passage that allows initiates to see life in a new way.

A) liminality
B) curiosity
C) wisdom
D) induction

Question 5

The stages of a rite of passage DO NOT include ___________________.

A) separation
B) rejection
C) a liminal period
D) reaggregation

Question 6

In a rite of passage, the candidate who is in the liminal phase is "structurally invisible" because _________________________________________.

A) the person is between social classifications
B) no one pays attention to the person
C) the person is looked down on by society
D) the person has no status, property or kinship

Question 7

In a rite of passage, the initiates who are grouped together _______________________________.

A) maintain a hierarchy of social rank
B) recognize who has superior abilities
C) operate as a family group
D) recognize that all are equal

Question 8

For Turner, the concepts of liminality and communitas cannot be directly transferred to rituals in our modern, pluralistic society, because _______________.

A) modern society has no sense of community
B) we do not all share the same belief system
C) liminality is impossible in a crowded society
D) we are more sophisticated than traditional societies

Question 9

In comparing traditional and modern societies, Turner DOES NOT note that:

A) participation in ritual tends to be optional in modern societies.
B) in traditional societies, fun occurs in the context of work-related activities.
C) modern societies place too much emphasis on leisure.
D) traditional societies do not separate the concepts of work and play.

Question 10

Rituals of reversal, such as Halloween, are not really liminal because ____________.

A) they rely on the concept of play
B) they do not change the status of their initiates
C) they are not really rituals
D) the participants are mostly children

Question 11

Anthropologist Victor Turner sees ____________ as a kind of symbolic language that helps define an event in terms of the broader range of symbols in a society.

Question 12

A ___________ ritual is one that celebrates events that occur at approximately the same time each year.

Question 13

A _______________ ritual is one that is performed at significant points in the life cycle of humans.

Question 14

Turner did most of his anthropological field work in ____________, but his conclusions can be applied generally.

Question 15

_______________________ are celebrated to indicate or constitute transitions between states in a person's life.

Question 16

___________________ is the term Turner uses to define the social bond and sense of interrelation achieved by initiates during the liminal period.

Question 17

________________, creative representations of supernatural beings crucial to a society, demonstrate how liminality can unlock imaginative potential.

Question 18

Serious ______________, which involve ideas and religiously important symbols, are often reserved for liminal times and places.

Question 19

____________ ritual liminality deals with situations in which play is related to work.

Question 20

When contrasting the liminal and the liminoid, Turner emphasizes that the ____________ phenomena develop apart from the central economic and political processes in a society.