Student projects
Who said it?
History
Anthropology
Surprise me!
100

Muhanad's research project and presentation focused on what sport?

What is basketball?

100

Who said, "There is no church of magic?"

Who is Emile Durkheim?

100
How did the Romans define a religion, as opposed to a superstition?
What is 'a religion is ancient'? 
100
According to Gmelch in "Baseball Magic," what functions do rituals, taboos, and other related practices serve and when are they used the most?

What is to increase confidence in high-risk situations? 

100

Who said, "What is taking place, then, is a broad attack on women.... “Traditional” patriarchal prejudices certainly play a role in it. Shaped by male-centered religious values, indigenous as well as grafted on them by colonization...."

Who is Silvia Federici?


200

What figure did Betina's postcards reimagine?

Who is Krampus?

200

Who said "Dirt is matter out of place"?

Who is Mary Douglas?

200

What was the difference between a charm and the Lord's Prayer in early medieval Europe?

What is 'the authority of the Catholic Church'? 

200
James Brain argues that witches represent what two things? 

What are "people's deepest fears" and "a reversal of 'normal' behavior"? 

200

What was Rachel Moseley's argument in "Glamorous Teen Magic"?

What is "representations of teen witches police acceptable forms of femininity even as they celebrate postfeminist forms of female power"? (Or something similar!)

300
What is the umbrella name for Latin American witchcraft?

What is brujería?

300

Who described "the disenchantment of the world?

Who is Max Weber? 

300
Around what time did many current academic disciplines, especially social sciences, emerge?

What is 'around 1900'? (or similar)

300

What does Kim TallBear suggest, in her work on decolonizing anthropology, as a better solution than "giving back"?

What is 'standing with'? 

300

What are the four dimensions of Bruce Lincoln's definition of religion?

What are discourse (referring to the transcendent), practice, institution, and community?

400

What two pieces of music did Cara's presentation and paper address?

What are Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique and Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz?

400

Who said that "Most other systems of explanation-mythic, magic, or religious- encompass everything. They apply to every domain. They answer any possible
question. They account for the origin, beginning, and end of the universe. Science proceeds differently."?

Who is Francois Jacob?

400

When did the European witch hunts take place?

When is 1450-1700? 

400

What are the three elements of the shamanistic complex, according to Levi-Strauss?

What are 1) the patient, 2) the shaman, and 2) the community?

400

What is the name of the part(s) of the brain that psychedelics disrupt?  

What is the default mode network? 

500

What correction to the secondary literature did Lisel's presentation make?

What is 'suggested getting beyond focusing on just the problematic representations of vodou"? (or something similar)

500

Who said, "The arcane knowledge or "gnosis" obtained
in the liminal period is felt to change the inmost
nature of the neophyte, impressing him, as a seal
impresses wax, with the characteristics of his new
state. It is not a mere acquisition of knowledge, but a
change in being."

Who is Victor Turner?

500

What German physician invented the practice of treating patients with magnets?

Who is (Franz) Mesmer? 

500

What is central to American neopaganism, according to Sabine Magliocco in Witching Culture? 

What is religious ecstasy?


500

What Siberian lake was featured in the documentary and is sacred in shamanic practices?

What is Lake Baikal?

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