Briefly define the “Three Images of the Forest People.” Explain why one of them is a dangerous distortion. Which view is the least distorted?
What will be an ideal response?
• Primal Eden: a simple, unspoiled, and innocent utopia whose "music-culture evokes cherished values—peace, naturalness, humor, community," an "idyllic paradise"
• Primitive Savage: primitive savagery, an "earlier stage" in evolution; a way of life associated with the Stone Age. Such a pejorative view is ethnocentric and dangerous, because it can become a rationalization for the exploitation and "modernization" of the "primitive" group by another group who feels superior.
• Unique Culture in a Global Village: This view is the least distorted and recognizes the Forest People as nonliterate, nonindustrial, with an unspecialized division of labor and a cashless barter/subsistence economy, in a homogeneous society with small-scale, decentralized social institutions and egalitarian social relations.
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A. skilled crafts workers to intellectuals. B. observers of nature to designers. C. shamans to documentarians. D. monks to nobility. E. None of these answers is correct.
When the Qur’an is translated from the Arabic, it is no longer considered to be the Qur’an, because
a) the Qur’an is believed to be the word of God and, as such, cannot be translated. b) many of the Qur’an’s Arabic words have no equivalent in any other language. c) Muhammad decreed that the Qur’an could only be written in Arabic. d) Ismael decreed that the Qur’an could not be translated.