Please answer each of the three questions with at least 125 words in length to qualify for an A. (A little longer is fine, but don’t go overboard! Part of making a good answer is deciding what the most important points are). Note that this is a different format than previous exams — there are 3 questions (not 2), but your answers can be shorter.
1. Many of the parents interviewed in “The Virgin Daughters” indicated that they had not been virgins when they got married. Could the new emphasis on purity and efforts to get girls to sign purity pledges be seen as a revitalization movement? To support your answer, evaluate the movement in terms of 1) the definition of revitalization movements provided by the textbook; and 2) Anthony Wallace’s model for the common origins of revitalization movements (Worth 35 points)
2. What is the piety movement, in your own words? Please bring together information from “The Light in Her Eyes” documentary, the POV discussion guide that goes with the film, and the Saba Mahmood interview in your answer (and make it clear where your information is coming from by saying this such as, “as Mahmood tells us…, or “in the film…”). (NOTE: all materials are posted in Module 12.) (Worth 35 points)
3. Compare and contrast the ways in which each of these religious movements — the purity movement as discussed by the couple who organizes the purity ball and the piety movement model pursued by Houda in “The Light in Her Eyes” — sees itself as empowering to women. Please discuss them in an anthropological way — which means respectfully — even if you don’t agree with them. (Worth 30 points)