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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