Anth 229 Trivia 1

Question 1

According to Zaid Eyadat, what is one reason why Arab states have historically avoided addressing minority issues?

Accepted Answer

Because nation-state legitimacy depended on myth of societal homogeneity

Question 2

What does Benedict Anderson mean by the term “imagined communities"?

Accepted Answer

National identity is sustained through shared myths, media, institutions

Question 3

According to Inhorn and colleagues, where is third-party ART (like egg or sperm donation) permitted in the Middle East?

Accepted Answer

In Iran and Israel

Question 4

How did Kurdish nationalist projects of the late 19th and early 20th century attempt to gain legitimacy?

Accepted Answer

By demonstrating that Kurds met international requirements for nationhood

Question 5

Which of these is NOT part of the Qur’anic categories of milk kin that prohibit marriage?

Accepted Answer

Your milk uncle

Question 6

What would Sayyida Zaynab likely NOT say at a jam‘iyya meeting, based on the social expectations in An Enchanted Modern?

Accepted Answer

“Let's go viral on TikTok with this soup kitchen.”

Question 7

In Veiled Sentiments, how does Lila Abu-Lughod challenge Western romanticized expectations of Bedouin identity?

Accepted Answer

Showing how Bedouins define identity via morality&kinship, not lifestyle

Question 8

How does Morgan Clarke's concept of "milk kinship" challenge Western models of kinship?

Accepted Answer

Shows how substance-sharing creates real, binding kinship beyond biogenes

Question 9

How does Samuli Schielke’s analysis of Ramadan football complicate dominant representations of Islamic piety?

Accepted Answer

It reveals the ambivalent, fragmented, negotiated nature of moral selfhood

Question 10

What is the paradox Nathalie Peutz explores regarding “Bedouinness” and UNESCO heritage recognition?

Accepted Answer

Bedouin identities are symbolically elevated, but Bedouins feel devaluation

Question 11

In "Bad Feelings" by Ghassan Moussawi and Jyoti Puri, what is the importance of emotions in decolonial research practice

Accepted Answer

They show that politics of knowledge production are emotional/institutional

Question 12

According to Lara Deeb, what is “women’s jihād” in the context of Shi‘i piety in Lebanon?

Accepted Answer

The pursuit of piety through public service and moral commitment

Question 13

What is Edward Said’s concept of Orientalism primarily about?

Accepted Answer

A framework that defines the East in opposition to the West

Question 14

In Hayder Al-Mohammad’s ethnography of post-invasion Basra, how does the concept of “precarity” function?

Accepted Answer

As a way to understand how survival depends on relational struggles

Question 15

What critique of knowledge production did our Week 2 lecture and readings emphasize regarding post-9/11 MENA studies?

Accepted Answer

Political science and security studies became popular, anthro marginalized

Question 16

What is a key reason why nationalism in the Middle East and Central Asia differs from European model (organic movement)?

Accepted Answer

They were shaped by colonial interventions and elite-driven projects

Question 17

How does Abu-Lughod’s critique of Western feminism apply to conversations on gender in the MENA region?

Accepted Answer

Challenges the idea that freedom looks like rejecting tradition/religion

Question 18

In Bilal’s work, what role do lullabies play for Armenian women in post-genocide Turkey?

Accepted Answer

They act as sonic archives, transmitting suppressed histories, trauma, care

Question 19

What’s the real reason Soqotran Bedouins said “We are goats”?

Accepted Answer

As a form of ironic self-deprecation amidst global heritage labeling

Question 20

How does “dhimmi” in Islamic history illustrate the entanglement of religion, law, and political economy?

Accepted Answer

Formalized both protection and subordination

Question 21

What role did 19th-century World Fairs play in shaping Western views of the Middle East?

Accepted Answer

They staged exoticized and controlled depictions of MENA cultures

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