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The "Peyote Way" is adhered to by |
| | A) | about 15,000 American Indians and White People who went "native" during the turbulent 1960's. |
| | B) | almost all American Indian tribes as the official religion of Native Americans. |
| | C) | some 250,000 American Indians. |
| | D) | the Navajo Nation and has subsequently become popular among the Plains Indians. |
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As a "roadman," Mike Kiyaani helps his community |
| | A) | in political affairs between the government of the Navajo Nation and the federal government. |
| | B) | as a leader in peyote rites along the path to personal dignity and respect for nature and for other people. |
| | C) | retain continuity between the traditions of the past and the directions of the future; Kiyaani is a keeper of cultural heritage. |
| | D) | in his role as a pastor in the Native American Church. |
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Mike Kiyaani was introduced to peyote |
| | A) | through rigorous instruction and training with his mentor Truman Daily. |
| | B) | by 'blessed accident' when he was working far from home. |
| | C) | by his father who was a traditional Navajo healer. |
| | D) | by his mentor Truman Daily, but he learned much from experimentation. |
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When the Spaniards conquered Mexico they found |
| | A) | widespread use of hallucinogenic drugs among the natives, but no knowledge of alcohol. |
| | B) | that the Indians soon discontinued the use of hallucinogens in favor of the milder distilled spirits introduced by the Spanish. |
| | C) | widespread use of both alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs among the Indians. |
| | D) | widespread use of alcoholic beverages among the Indian's, but there is virtually no mention of hallucinogenic drugs. |
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Furst and Coe assert that although there is little written on the subject, hallucinogenic drug use was an important ritual among the Maya for all of the following reasons except |
| | A) | many of the hallucinogenic plants used in Mexico range farther south into Maya territory; therefore, it's improbable they didn't know about them. |
| | B) | the Maya had well established trade routes with Indians farther north in Mexico, and their territory used to range all the way to Veracruz, therefore its probable that the Indians in Mexico at the time of conquest inherited their practices from the early Maya. |
| | C) | there is evidence in early dictionaries of a host of Maya words for mushrooms that conjure up trance-like states and frightening visions. |
| | D) | a new discovery of a vase depicts trancelike states induced by an intoxicating enema. |
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Evidence suggesting a widespread use of ritual enemas among the classic Maya is important because |
| | A) | enemas were previously thought to be a strictly Old World practice. |
| | B) | it dispels the long held theory that the Maya were markedly different than their Dionysian neighbors, and lends insight into the culture and artifacts of the classic Maya. |
| | C) | the classic Maya predated other South American groups known to have used the practice, therefore they are now attributed with discovering the practice for the continent. |
| | D) | it was previously held that hallucinogenic drug use was limited to the South American tropical forests and the northern Mexico desert. |
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The Jívaro Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon believe that the vast majority of illnesses and non-violent deaths |
| | A) | are caused by malicious forest spirits that can only be driven away by the shaman. |
| | B) | are caused and cured by the same shaman. |
| | C) | are caused by witchcraft that can only be addressed with the help of a curing shaman. |
| | D) | are avoidable with careful observation of cultural taboos and the enlistment of spirit protection through a medium. |
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Harner asserts that anthropologists have ______________ the importance of hallucinogenic drugs in the Jívaro ideology. |
| | A) | greatly overestimated |
| | B) | greatly underestimated |
| | C) | been misled by natives about |
| | D) | fabricated |
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The hallucinogenic preparation used by Ecuadorian Jívaro shamans is made out of a plant known by all of the following names except |
| | A) | ayahuasca. |
| | B) | Banisteriopsis. |
| | C) | psilocybe mushrooms |
| | D) | natema. |
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