History of folklorist studies
What is the idea that pre-Christian European practices continued to exist in various forms?
What is 'pagan survivals'?
A book-length personal account of one's life and experiences is called what?
What is a memoir?
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?
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 their study called?
What is an ethnography?
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 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 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?
According to Helmuth, who is the most important person in witchcraft?
What is the goddess?
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'?
Neopagans emphasize the presence of the sacred in what?
What is 'in nature' (and/or 'what is in every person'?)
What is the appeal of witchcraft for Helmuth? What does it provide?
Some version of 'it offers control over the world'
Folklore studies emerged from late eighteenth-century critiques of what European intellectual movement?
What is the Enlightenment?
How does Magliocco explain her position as someone who participates in neopagan rituals and identifies as a neopagan, but also studies them from an 'outsider,' scholarly perspective?
What is 'being an insider and an outsider'? Or 'what is depends on the context? Or 'what is the nature of identity is shifting and contextual'?
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')