History of folklorist studies
What is the idea that pre-Christian European practices continued to exist in various forms?
What is 'pagan survivals'?
Magliocco says it is crucial to understand how "ethnographic experiences affect and change" whom?
Who is the observer?
When was the term neopagan coined?
When is the 1890s?
What neopagan practice did Helmuth try that she kept doing but that scares her?
What is tarot?
Who are pitchers and batters?
Why did academics abandon the idea that people could recover pagan survivals by comparing traditions and practices from around the world?
What is 'cultural relativism'? (Or the influence of Franz Boas)
When anthropologists study a culture or society through participant observation or other methods, what is that study called?
What is an ethnography?
Neopagans emphasize the presence of the sacred in what?
What is 'in nature' (and/or 'what is in every person'?)
According to Helmuth, who is the most important person in witchcraft?
What is the goddess?
When did Trobriand Islanders use "magical" ritual the most?
When is 'fishing on the open sea'?
What theory informed nineteenth-century efforts to recover folklore as an earlier, more "primitive" stage in human development?
What is Darwin's theory of evolution?
According to Magliocco, the ethnographer is what?
What is a magician?
When did American/ North American neopaganism begin?
When are the 1950s and 1960s?
What did Helmuth find hard to admit over the course of her year's journey through witchcraft?
What is 'wanting to experience the divine'? or some version of that.
What is the concept that a group or culture should be understood in its own context, and not against some universal 'standard'?
What is cultural relativism?
This now-debunked theory held that societies developed from the 'primitive' to the 'barbarian' to the civilized.
What is the 'doctrine of survivals'? (Cultural evolutionary theory also works)
How did Magliocco's research in Witching Culture differ geographically from other previous scholarly studies?
What is 'focused on California'?
What are the demographics of neopaganism in the US? You need at least 3 of the 4 to get this right.
What is 'white, middle-class, and well-educated urbanites'?
What is the appeal of witchcraft for Helmuth? That is, what does it provide for her?
Some version of 'it offers control over the world'
Why do baseball players engage in so many rituals, according to Gmelch? What does it provide for them?
What is a sense of control? (Other answers possible)
Folklore studies emerged from late eighteenth-century critiques of what European intellectual movement?
What is the Enlightenment?
What is the main (but not only) method used to study cultures in anthropology?
What is participant observation?
What does Magliocco argue in Witching Culture? That is, what does she think is the key to understanding neopagan culture?
What is religious ecstasy?
How do the demographics of witchcraft differ from most mainstream religions, according to Helmuth?
What is 'you aren't born into it'? (Other answers also work-- ie.g., 'it's a subculture')
Who is the psychologist whom Gmelch cites in regards to his findings (about pigeons-- which he taught to play table tennis by rewarding them)?
Who is BF Skinner?