ANTH 0780 (CRN 35171)

Angela Lockard Reed

Parallel Worlds Study Questions

Chapter 10

1.  What did Yacouba mean when he said, “They threw it out into the darkness and they retrieved it in the moonlight?”

2.  What was the village explanation for Nakoyan’s children dying?

3.  Why did Aba Kouassi decide to talk to Alma about the Beng Earth religion?

4.  When does a child become Beng?

5.  How was Philip's work compared to the work of a diviner?

6.  Why are Beng fields round?

7.  In what ways were Alma and Philip changed by their time in Africa?  What did they learn about themselves and others?