Question
Philosophers in this culture emphasized the importance of “rootedness,” the ability to maintain balance on the “slippery” earth. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this culture that introduced a word for “betweenness” that is often used in anthropology. Much of what we know about their philosophy comes from a 12-book ethnography by a Franciscan friar.
ANSWER: Aztecs [or Nahua; or Mexica] (The word is “Nepantla.”)
[10h] Aztec philosophers used this term for the continuously regenerating force that permeates the cosmos.
ANSWER: teotl (“TAY-oh-tull”) [or Ometeotl]
[10e] James Maffie accordingly argues that the Aztecs believed in this doctrine, which states that the universe consists of only one type of thing.
ANSWER: monism [or monist; accept ontological monism; accept constitutional monism; accept substance monism]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Nationals | 04/22/2023 | Y | 21 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
Data
| Duke A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Brown A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| WUSTL B | Ohio State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Minnesota A | Rutgers A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Rutgers B | McGill A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| WUSTL A | Purdue A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | Vanderbilt A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cornell A | Chicago B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Northwestern A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Florida B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley B | Texas A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale B | Indiana A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Iowa State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| MIT A | Penn State A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Stanford A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Claremont A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Houston A | Harvard A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia A | North Carolina A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |