anthropology 4

Which one of the following is not a function of marriage?

4 functions of a marriage. 1. Transforms the status of the man and woman. 2. stipulates the degree of sexual access. 3. Establishes the legitimacy of children born to the wife. 4. creates the relationship between the kin of the wife and the kin of the husband.

Which of the following post-marital residence patterns refers to the bride and groom living with an uncle

Avunculocal residence

Which culture from our readings practices arranged marriage?

Bhil (india)

A bilateral kinship group that is most like the lineage is called a

Clan

A rule of relationship that links people together on the basis of reputed common ancestry is called

Descent

When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from her own village, we call the arrangement

Endogamy

Which of the following kinship systems is bifurcate merging?

Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Crow, omaha, and sudanesse

When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from another village, we call the arrangement

Exogamy

Bride Service is when

Husband spends a period of time working for the family of his bride

The cultural rule that prohibits sexual intercourse among defined classes of relatives is called

Incest taboo

A relationship between two people that is socially recognized and which confers birth-status rights on children is called

Marriage

Descent from a common ancestor through females only, is called

Matrilineage

In the Crow system of kinship, descent is traced only through the

Mother's matrilineal group

Which of the following post-marital residence patterns refers to the bride and groom living independently from either family?

Neolocal residence

Descent through only one side is referred to as:

Unilineal

In her article on the Chinese uterine family, Wolf asserts that within her husband's family

a Chinese woman solely depends on her husband for support

In the Eskimo kinship system, what does Ego call his father's sister

aunt

What type of post-marital residence is the rarest?

avunculocal

Scheper-Hughes (Mother's Love: Death without Weeping) claims that which of the following kinds of people encourage(s) mothers not to become attached to their sick and dying children?

clergy, doctors, and midwives.

McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India) argues that arranged marriage functions to

create alliances between Bhil families and patrilineages

An older married couple, together with their married sons, their daughters‑in‑law, and their grandchildren, all living in a single household, is a classic example of

extended family

According to Scheper-Hughes, doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often

failed to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies

According to McCurdy, when Bhils visit other villages, they usually stay with

feminal kin.

The Hawaiian kinship system is based on what two criteria?

generation and sex

Consanguines are

having the same ancestry or descent related by blood

According to Margery Wolf, which one of the following would be a member of her uterine family after she is married?

her brother

According to Goldstein, it is difficult for a male Tibetan to start his own farm because

it is difficult to terrace new land and keep animals simultaneously without help

If a married couple live with her family, what type of post-marital residence is that?

matrilocal residence

Which of the following groups from class has clans

meskwaki

As a child, a Chinese woman's most important family ties are with her

mother and siblings

in the Omaha kinship system, are you related to your biological mother?

no

The custom of polyandry may end among Tibetans living in Nepal because

of government opposition and new economic opportunities

The Chinese depicted by Margery Wolf in the article about uterine families would best be classified as

patrilineal

Descent from a common ancestor through males only is called

patrilineal descent

According to Goldstein (Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife), Tibetan polyandry functions above all to

permit richer farmers to maintain their standard of living

Marriage can be a

private or public matter

In most of the world, marriage is not based on romantic love, but on

reproduction

According to Goldstein, Tibetan polyandry

requires a group of brothers to marry one woman.

If a woman dies and her husband marries one of her close female relatives, such as a sister or female cousin, we call this:

sororate

According to Scheper-Hughes in her article, "Mother's Love: Death without Weeping," poor Brazilian mothers living in a shanty town near the town of Bom Jesus de Mata

stayed emotionally detached from their babies, particularly those they felt were likely to die.

Marriage is a relationship based on

the customs, rules, and obligations that establish a socially endorsed relationship between adults and children, and between the kin groups of the married partners

According to McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India), the term feminal kin refers in part to when it is used to described kin relationships in Ratakote.

the husbands and the relatives of women who belong to one's own lineage

In an epilogue to her article (Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping), Scheper-Hughes argues that __________________ contributed to lower infant death and birth rates in Bom Jesus.

the installation of water pipes that carried clean water to virtually every home in the shantytown.

According to McCurdy, which one of the following is the most important structural tension associated with marriage in Bhil Society?

the shifting of a womans loyalty, labor, and reproductive potential from her family to her husbands family

If a married couple live with his family, what type of post-marital residence is that?

Patrilocal residence

The marriage of one woman to more than one man simultaneously is called

Polyandry

Which one of the following marriage types is the rarest

Polyandry

Which one of the following is not true about Tibetan polyandry?

Polyandry eliminates sexual competition among brothers.

When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women, anthropologists call the arrangement

Polygyny

A bilateral kinship group that is most like the lineage is called a

Ramage