Eugenics
What is eugenics?
The science of proliferating good genes for the human race, by expelling bad genes from it.
Anthropologists call ceremonies that mark a life change, like birth or death. What is this?
Rite of Passage
Most of the world’s mummies have been found in?
Egypt
What holiday does the movie Coco take place in?
Dia de Muertos
This blood-drinking creature comes from Eastern European folklore
Vampire
Where was eugenics founded?
It was founded in England in 1883
Día de los Muertos shows how rituals help connect people with whom?
Their Ancestors
Where are bog bodies found?
Northern Europe, they’ve been found in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Sweden, England, and Ireland
Which major religions believe in reincarnation after death?(three out of four and ill give it to ya)
Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism
Many cultures tell ghost stories to explain what happens after death. Anthropologists study these as part of what kind of tradition?
Folklore
Who invented Eugenics?
Francis Galton
Rituals often include costumes, music, and storytelling. Anthropologists study these parts as what element of culture?
Cultural Performance
What is the majority cause of death for most of the skeletons in Roopkund Skeleton Lake?
Round objects from above, said in myth to have been a sudden freak hailstorm who killed a King and his entourage on their way to a shrine.
Why do some cultures exhume(dig up) the bones of their deceased?
Most of the time it is to remove the remains to a different location after burial, but they also include spiritual and cultural rituals, such as ancestor veneration, and honoring the dead. The Malagasy in particular will exhume their ancestors to dance with them in a practice called Famadihana.
Werewolf stories show humans crossing into animal form. Anthropologists see this as breaking which kind of boundary?
human–animal or nature–culture boundary?
Did Eugenics end at the culmination of World War 2?
Nope, it ended later.
Lighting candles or lanterns during Halloween and Día de los Muertos is an example of this kind of symbolic action.
Ritual Act
Where was Pentewar Discovered?
Near Thebes in the Deir el-Bahari Cache
Which culture(s) utilizes sky burials?
Tibetans and Mongolians
Zombies in Haitian folklore were once used as a warning against this form of social control.
Slavery or colonization
Who was the first eugenics baby?
Vera Burnham in the late 1920s
What is Kuru and how did it proliferate?
Kuru is a prion disease that was spread through cannibalizing a dead relative's brain. Incubation would take ten to fifty years after which the infected would die within one to two years once symptoms began to show. This was apparent in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea who believed that eating the brain of ones ancestor was of ritual importance. They have since stopped cannibalizing.
In 1996 in a necropolis in Povegliano Veronese, Veneto, Italy a man was found with a prosthetic. He was dubbed the Medieval terminator, where was his prosthetic?
His right forearm, where he had a prosthetic knife arm.
Why do some enslaved African graves face towards the east?
There are two main reasons why their graves would face east.
1st is that they believed that facing east would return their souls to africa
2nd is for the Christian believers, who believed that when Christ came in the second coming
Witches in early modern Europe were often women accused of challenging power structures. Anthropologists connect this to what?
gender and social control?