Religion

The Hindu religious texts, rituals, and beliefs often cited as the origin of the caste system in South Asia divided the population into how many primary castes, or varna?

In the varna system associated with Hindu religious texts, which caste was composed of scholars and spiritual leaders?

What is the literal meaning of the term "dalits," used to refer to the marginalized group also known as "Untouchables" in India?

In Susan Kahn's ethnography of Israel, how is Jewishness traditionally passed down, a fact that is central to debates about assisted reproductive technologies?

According to the text, what gender alternative group in India are religious followers of the Hindu Mother Goddess, Bahuchara Mata?

During the nationalist movement in Zimbabwe, spirit mediums drew on their connections to local religious beliefs to legitimize guerrilla fighters. What did the spirit mediums claim the fighters were?

The 1940 U.S. census form controversially added a category for a religion, treating it as a racial category. Which religion was it?

In Chinese popular religion, what is the name of the annual spring festival where relatives visit, clean, and make offerings at the graves of their ancestors?

Before German and Belgian colonial rule, Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda were distinguished mainly by occupation and social status, but what did they share?

What term did French colonialists introduce for the gender alternative in Native North American cultures, which has since fallen into disrepute?

In his study of Nicaraguan machismo, what did Roger Lancaster find was the key distinction that determined a man's sexual identity in same-gender encounters?

The nineteenth-century Victorian ideal of sexuality, which considered sex to be for procreation alone, was heavily influenced by what?

In what year did the United Methodist Church ordain its first openly gay bishop, Karen Oliveto, demonstrating a shift in some U.S. cultural and religious arenas?

The disastrous partition of India and Pakistan in 1946–47 involved widespread violence among which three primary religious groups?

What is a central practice of Hutterite communities in North America that reflects their religious and social structure?

What is the name for a type of descent group that claims connection to a founding ancestor but does not provide the same level of genealogical documentation as a lineage?

The Nuer people of Southern Sudan, studied by E. E. Evans-Pritchard, constituted what type of descent group?

In the context of the Bosnian war, anthropologist Tone Bringa found that local Muslims, Catholic Croats, and Orthodox Christian Serbs had lived together peacefully for how long before outside political forces imposed new ethnic and religious divisions?

The process of categorizing, differentiating, and attributing a particular racial character to a person or group of people is known as what?

What is the term for a story told about the founding and history of a particular group to reinforce a sense of common identity?

In her study of a Chinese village, the author found that a chaotic and brutal national political movement had destroyed family and temple ancestral records. What was this movement called?

The ideology used to justify European colonial expansion often intertwined racial supremacy, patriarchy, and what other component?

What is the term for a system of stratification where status is determined by birth, most prominently found in South Asia and often linked to Hindu religious traditions?

The term 'Two-Spirits,' now commonly used to refer to gender alternatives in Native North American cultures, is a direct borrowing from which language?

What is the name of the distinctive Amish practice where the entire community gathers to rapidly erect a barn for one family, which is an act of reciprocity?

According to the text, what is the estimated population of dalits in India, who constitute one-sixth of the country's total population?

In the study of a Chinese village, the reconstruction of the local genealogy book, or zupu, was funded by whom?

What do hijras in India do at weddings and birth celebrations that marks them as auspicious and powerful ritual figures?

In the aftermath of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, the return of abducted women was framed by the Indian and Pakistani governments as a matter of what?

In her ethnography of a Bosnian village, Tone Bringa pointedly notes that before the war, Muslims and Catholics had lived together peacefully for how many centuries?

What is the term for a gift of goods or money from the groom’s family to the bride’s family as part of the marriage process, common in many parts of the Middle East and Africa?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the dalit caste's experience as described in the text?

Israel's national health policies, influenced by religious and historical reasons, heavily favor increased reproduction. What is one way the state supports this?

In the nineteenth century, what ideology was used to justify the European colonial enterprise, combining ideas of racial supremacy and patriarchy with a sense of divine mission?

Which Christian sect is known for its members' simple lifestyle, rejection of certain labor-saving devices, and cooperative economic structure based on reciprocity?

In Southall, England, what kinship term do youth from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds use to build strong, chosen connections across cultural boundaries?

In the practice of Hinduism, what is the term for birth groups that practically create divisions within society, drawn from sources like ethnic origins and occupations?

In his study of a small neighborhood in Mexico City, what did Matthew Gutmann discover about the concept of 'machismo'?

What is the term for marriage to someone outside the kinship group?

What is the name of the gift of goods or money from the bride's family to the husband's family, a practice common in India?

In the study of a shelter for battered women by Dana-Ain Davis, how did the women create their own social safety net in response to violence and an unhelpful welfare system?

What type of marriage, orchestrated by the families of the bride and groom, continues to be prominent in many cultures in Asia, the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa?

The belief that whites are biologically different from and superior to people of other races is defined as what?

In the case of the 1982 court case of Susie Phipps, a 1970 Louisiana law mandated that a person be designated black if their ancestry was at least what fraction black?

The text describes the Indian caste system as having functioned across multiple religions. Which of the following is NOT one of the religions mentioned?

What type of marriage, built on love, intimacy, and personal choice rather than social obligation, is becoming more common globally?

In the Hindu varna system, what was the designated role of the Ksyatriyas caste?

What does the text identify as a cultural rule that forbids sexual relations with certain close relatives, a practice found in some form in all cultures?

What is the term for a marriage between one man and two or more women, a practice found historically among the Nuer of the Sudan?

The film 'The Battle of Algiers' explores the brutal anti-colonial struggle of the Algerian movement for independence from which European power?