1. According to the text, the Western medical system considers economic, political, and environmental factors in illness treatment.
True
False
2. Ethnomedicine, as described by the editor of the book, includes
A. folk or ritual medicine
B. a society's own system of medicine, including those with long histories of documenting their own medical knowledge
C. holistic consideration of cultural, economic, political, and environmental that affect health and medicine
D. all of these
3.Foster believes that naturalistic etiologies to be more ancient than personalistic.
True
False
4. If a patient seeks treatment from a healer of some sort and the healer states that the patient's illness is related to equilibrium loss not religion or spirit possession, caused by a single source, and responsibility resides within the patient, their healer would be most aligned with
A. naturalistic etiology
B. personalistic etiology
C. multiple levels of illness causation
D. folk healing etiology
5. Incidences of disease or illness may bridge across the classifications of personalistic and naturalistic.
True
False
6. According to De La Portilla, Material, Spiritualism, and Physical healing are the three areas of Curanderisimo.
True
False
7. The power of the Curandero/as is said to be derived in which of the following way(s)?
A. a calling to heal
B. a guide or mentor to assist in realization of a natural ability
C. individuals born with the power
D. all of these
8. Water, symbolic of fluidity, is critical in many curanderismo practices as a purifier.
True
False
9. According to Aurthur Klienman's definition of illness as culturally constructed discussed by De La Portilla, which of the following factors contributes to manifested physical symptoms?
A. feelings of loss of control
B. labor or job related stress
C. economic stress
D. all of these
10. According to De La Portilla more women than men seek healing from currandero/as.
True
False
11. Lia, a Hmong-American child, was finally correctly diagnosed when a bilingual nurse's assistant was on duty.
True
False
12. Hmong epileptics often become shamans because
A. seizures give the ability to see things others can not and help facilitate entry into trance
B. seizures symbolize death from the material world and rebirth into the spiritual world
C. they are believed to have the power to heal and cause harm
D. they are seen as unfit to work as laborers
13. Historically epilepsy has been attributed to
A. parental abuse
B. abnormal brain activity caused by various stimulants
C. oxygen deprivation during gestation
D. supernatural causes
14. According to Kenyon's study, "zar" in Sudan can create a counter hegemony for women within the larger patriarchal society.
True
False
15. In which of the following ways has "zar" modernized and adapted with Sudanese culture?
A. providing a necessary scapegoat for people to cope with change
B. it allows an outlet for women to have power and have discourse about issues and changes that impact them
C. it allows for an embodiment of knowledge from other cultures and novel stimuli
D. all of these
16. Two of the few commodities sold at the Burning Man Festival are ice and coffee.
True
False
17. When participants describe their healing experiences at Burning Man, majority of responses included in Gilmore's article mention components of the concept of communitas as most influential or directly related to their healing experiences.
True
False
18. All of the following ideological aspects of pilgrimage are discussed by Gilmore with regard to the Burning Man Festival EXCEPT
A. principle of "leave no trace" and minimal impact on the surrounding environment
B. projection of experiences into tangible commoditized items
C. individual self-realization and self-reliance
D. participation and community
19. The concept of Communitas, as described by Turner and utilized in Gilmore's analysis of Burning Man includes which of the following?
A. egalitarianism
B. unity
C. disrupted sense of conventional hierarchy
D. all of these
20. With what tangible evidence does Gilmore argue that Burning Man has reached out into a broader sphere of influence?
A. the presence of "spin-off" events
B. the growth of the size of the festival
C. the fact that some long-term participants no longer feel the need to attend because they feel they can live the "Burning Man" space without physically being present at the festival
D. all of these