Anthropology 101 Chapter 10
kinship.
A network of relatives within which individuals possess certain mutual rights and obligations is called:
A young man of Jewish affiliation moves to New York City to find a job. Seeing no reason to "go it alone," he calls everyone he knows from both his mother's and father's side of the family, and attends various meetings to which he is invited. He is invited to multiple events and gatherings by virtue of his being related to various ancestors on both parents' side. These groups support him when he runs out of money and help him find an apartment and a job. We can say that he is a member of either a bilateral descent group or which of the following?
Ambilineal
The Hawaiian system of kinship terminology is usually associated with what type of descent?
Ambilineal
North Americans assume that they are related equally to the relatives on both the mother's and father's side. The group composed of such people to whom these individuals feel that they belong is called what kind of descent group?
Bilateral
In the Biocultural Connection box Maori Origins, what was the focus of the research on the Maori people?
Connecting DNA types with the people's origin myths
Among the Yako of Nigeria, an individual might inherit grazing lands from his father's patrilineal group, and livestock and ritual knowledge from his mother's matrilineal group. This is an example of which kind of descent?
Double
In which kinship terminology are ego's "brother" and "sister" distinguished from "cousins" and both father's brother and mother's brother are given the same kinship term, "uncle"?
Eskimo
Which anthropologist worked with the Aroostook band of Micmacs in Maine?
Harald Prins
In _____ kinship terminology, the term "brother" is given to ego's brother, father's brother's son, and mother's sister's song; a different term is used for the sons of father's sister and mother's brother. "Mother" refers to ego's mother and mother's sister; "father" refers to ego's father and father's brother. Separate terms are used for mother's brother and father's sister.
Iroquois
Among the Hopi, which of the following functions as a landholding corporation, allocating land for the support of member households?
Lineages
Among the Han, brothers and their sons were part of the same household and paternal uncles were like second fathers. What type of descent is this?
Patrilineal
What was the primary purpose of advocacy anthropology among the Micmac?
To help them obtain official tribal recognition
Namus is another name for:
Turkish honor.
You belong to a patrilineal descent group. Which of the following belong(s) to the same group?
Your father's sister
Members of a moiety:
belong to one of two major descent groups in a society.
New reproductive technologies are:
changing the traditional understandings of kinship.
A clan is similar to a lineage except:
clan members are unable to trace exact genealogical links to their common ancestor.
An extended unilineal descent group whose members claim descent from a common ancestor but who cannot trace their genealogical links to that ancestor is called a(n):
clan.
A phratry is a unilineal descent group composed of two or more _____ that believe they are related to each other.
clans
In kinship studies, EGO refers to:
he center of a kindred.
All of the following are types of descent except:
institution.
All of the following statements about Han genealogy are correct except:
the tsu is a corporate kin group that traces its ancestry back about five generations through the female line.
Bilateral descent is commonly found among all of the following except:
tribal societies.
When kinship membership is traced either through males or through females but not both, it is called:
unilineal.
If you are a member of a patrilineal descent group:
your sisters belong to the same patrilineal descent group that you do.
Approximately how many Micmacs are members of the Aroostook band today, according to official criteria?
1,200
Through what practice do lineages develop new alliances within the larger social system?
Exogamy
What are honor killings?
Murder condoned by the genealogical group in order to retaliate for shame of unapproved sexual activity
The Turkish honor killings that van Eck studied were occurring in which country?
Netherlands
In what country do we find aboriginal Maori people?
New Zealand
Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome studies of the Maori indicate that their creation myth telling of their origins from the ancient place of Hawaiki is consistent with an origin in:
Polynesia and Southeast Asia region.
The splitting of a descent group into two or more entities is called:
fission.
A totem is all of the following except:
found in all societies that have lineages.
All of the following statements regarding a lineage are correct except:
it always involves a totem.
boy is born into a society that practices matrilineal descent. The person who exercises authority over him is his:
mother's brother.
Which of the following is not a Maori cultural concept?
namus
Descent groups are associated with all of the following except:
they make all laws for the state.
If two people are given the same kinship term, this means that:
they occupy a similar family status.
Clans, because they may have members living in many different villages, depend on _____ to provide symbolic identification and promote solidarity.
totems
Matrilineal descent groups are associated with farming societies in which _____ perform most of the labor in the house and gardens.
women
