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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In African tribes, what is personality said to be influenced by?

2. According to Malinowski, where do rituals derive from?

3. According to Douglas, the absence of what pertains to the lack of system?

4. According to Douglas, what rules are humans meant to adhere to?

5. What does Douglas claim miracle and magic are expected to bring?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Douglas describe the ways in which purity can be achieved?

2. Describe the role of compatibility for the Israelites.

3. What is isolation's role in health concerns?

4. What does Douglas describe as being the factors that rituals require?

5. Describe medical materialism as it is described in Purity and Danger.

6. What does Douglas believe you need to understand to study purity?

7. How is schematizing disrupted, according to Douglas?

8. Describe the rationale for the classification of animals.

9. Describe economic reality in relation to primitive and modern cultures, according to Douglas.

10. What were Frazer's beliefs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the contradiction in rejecting and accepting death? Is this something that takes place in modern culture? Give one example of such an event.

Essay Topic 2

According to the reading, how is harmony assured in society both externally and internally? What does collaboration have to do with internal lines? What does sexual collaboration have to do with harmony? Give examples of harmony's role in society in both primitive and modern cultures.

Essay Topic 3

What is the difference between social and cosmic pollution in Purity and Danger? How do both relate to primitive and modern cultures in the reading? How do these pollutions relate to your life?

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