menstruation - 2025 ACF Winter

Question

A volume edited by Alma Gottlieb and Thomas Buckley on the anthropology of this process criticizes its characterization as a source of “pollution.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this process, the subject of an “effect” supposedly observed by Martha McClintock. Nepal has banned the chhaupadi custom in which certain people who undergo this process are isolated.

ANSWER: menstruation [or menstrual cycle; or menarche; or period; accept ovulation; accept menstrual huts; prompt on bleeding] (Martha McClintock theorized menstrual synchrony.)

[10e] Taboos around menstruating women and girls have led them to be isolated to this type of primitive, one-room dwelling that typically has thatched roofs.

ANSWER: huts [or sheds; or shacks; accept menstruation huts; prompt on houses]

[10m] Buckley and Gottlieb’s book is titled for blood and this practice. Figures called towosi in the Trobriand Islands use this practice to aid yam farming, according to an ethnography partly titled for this practice.

ANSWER: magic [accept Blood Magic: The Anthropology of Menstruation; accept Coral Gardens and Their Magic] (Bronisław Malinowski wrote Coral Gardens and Their Magic.)

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California	Main	Y	4	5.00	25%	25%	0%
Canada	Main	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	3	13.33	67%	33%	33%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	6	15.00	100%	17%	33%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	10.00	78%	0%	22%
Northeast	Main	Y	6	18.33	83%	67%	33%
Overflow	Main	Y	3	6.67	33%	0%	33%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	10	16.00	90%	20%	50%
South Central	Main	Y	5	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	10	12.00	80%	0%	40%
UK	Main	Y	4	17.50	75%	75%	25%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	20.00	100%	14%	86%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	7	15.71	86%	43%	29%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Berkeley E	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley D	0	0	0	0
Stanford C	Stanford B	0	0	0	0
Claremont Scripps	Claremont Pitzer	10	10	0	20
UF A	UCF B	10	10	0	20
UF B	UF E	0	10	0	10
USC	UCLA A	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	10	20
UCSD Vices and Virtues	UCLA C	0	0	10	10
UCSB	UCLA D	0	10	10	20
UCSD What Hath God Wrought	UCI	0	10	0	10
UCF A	FIU	0	0	10	10
Pitt B	CWRU D	10	10	0	20
CWRU B	MSU A	0	10	0	10
OSU A	OSU D	10	10	0	20
OSU B	CWRU A	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	OSU C	0	10	0	10
Pitt C	Kenyon B	0	10	0	10
South Carolina A	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	North Carolina A	0	10	0	10
Liberty B	James Madison	10	10	0	20
NC State	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
Virginia B	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Tusculum	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Columbia C	10	10	10	30
Columbia B	Rowan A	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	10	10	0	20
Swarthmore A	Lehigh B	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10
Missouri A	WashU A	0	0	0	0
WashU B	Missouri B	0	0	0	0
WashU C	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	10	0	10	20
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
Chicago B	UIC	0	10	0	10
Kentucky	Illinois B	10	10	0	20
Michigan A	Illinois C	10	10	0	20
Indiana A	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Louisville B	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Michigan B	Notre Dame C	10	10	0	20
Notre Dame D	Michigan D	10	10	0	20
Purdue A	Chicago A	0	10	10	20
Purdue B	Louisville A	0	10	0	10
Chicago C	Illinois A	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Minnesota A	0	10	0	10
St. Thomas	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Macalester A	Macalester B	0	10	0	10
Minnesota C	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Nebraska	Wisconsin	0	10	0	10
BU	Brown C	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Clemenceau	MIT B	0	0	0	0
Tufts A	Brandeis Lloyd George	10	10	0	20
Brandeis Wilson	BC A	10	10	0	20
Amherst A	Brown A	0	10	0	10
Brown B	Tufts B	10	10	0	20
Williams	Cornell-UG	0	10	0	10
Harvard	MIT A	10	10	0	20
Dartmouth	Yale A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	Yale B	0	0	0	0
Lehigh A	Rutgers B	0	0	10	10
Vassar A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Alberta	British Columbia C	0	0	10	10
British Columbia A	British Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20
British Columbia D	Simon Fraser	0	10	0	10
Iowa	Northwestern C	10	10	0	20
Alberta B	McGill D	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Arizona State A	10	10	10	30
Northwestern B	Texas A	10	10	0	20
Tulsa	Rose State	0	10	0	10
Texas B	UCO	10	10	0	20
UTD A	Arizona State B	10	10	0	20
Mississippi State A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Vanderbilt A	Georgia Tech A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	0	10
Alabama A	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
UAB A	Huntsville A	0	0	0	0
Auburn A	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell-DII	0	10	0	10
Bruin A	Georgia Tech B	10	10	10	30