Round 7: Tossup 3

John Janzen described this country’s “cosmopolitan” use of Western and traditional medicine in The Quest for Therapy. Johannes Fabian’s fieldwork focused on this country, where he befriended the painter TKM. A culture in this country uses the molimo rite to “wake up” the jungle as a protector. A thinker from this country, who argued that the “colonial library” constructs a blank slate of alterity in The Invention of Africa, (10[1])was named V. Y. Mudimbe. A group in this country’s eastern neighbor, the Ik, contrasts with the “forest people” that title an ethnography of this country by Colin Turnbull. (-5[2])This country’s colonial-era border with its two northern neighbors (-5[1])split an ethnic group whose benge oracle was studied by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. For 10 points, South Sudan and what country (-5[1])to its south (-5[2])are home to the (-5[1])majority (-5[3])of the Zande people? ■END■ (0[26])

ANSWER: Democratic Republic of the Congo [or DR Congo; or DRC; or La République démocratique du Congo or RDC; or Congo-Kinshasa; accept Zaire; accept Belgian Congo; prompt on Congo; reject “Republic of the Congo,” “République du Congo,” or “Congo-Brazzaville”; reject “Congo Free State”] (Turnbull’s The Forest People is specifically about the Mbuti people.)
<Georgia Tech A, Social Science> | G. Prelims 7 - Georgia Tech A + Berkeley A + Bruin + Georgetown
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