Anthropology Final
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
- Dont mourn the death of infants because they know the fatality rate is so high - Are survivors - Distinguish between natural and supernaturals deaths - Recognize a large categoryof infant deaths - Wont save a baby she knows is going to die
According to Scheper-Hughes, doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often
- Have no means to help the dying children - Give tranquilizers and sleeping pills to silent the cries of a sick-to-death baby - Recognize malnutrition babies
According to Goldstein, it is difficult for a male Tibetan to start his own farm because
- Lack of available farm land - Harsh climate - Hard to manage farm and animals alone
The custom of polyandry may end among Tibetans living in Nepal because
- Shift from agriculture - New opportunities for economic and social mobility such as tourist trade and government employment
Marriage can be a:
1) Exogamy: To marry outside of a defined group 2) Endogamy: To marry within a defined group · A Private Matter between a man and a women · A Public Matter that concerns a broad range of relatives who mustconsent to, or often arranges the marriage. · A relationship based on mating
In the Eskimo kinship system, what does Ego call his father's sister?
Aunt
Which of the following post-marital residence patterns refers to the bride and groom living with an uncle?
Avenculocal residence
Which culture from our readings practices arranged marriage?
Bhil Society located in Ratakote - Southern India
Which of the following groups from class has clans:
Bhil of India
The Chinese depicted by Margery Wolf in the article about uterine families would best be classified as
Bilineal Patrilocal
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
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
In most of the world, marriage is not based on romantic love, but on:
Function
The uterine family described by Wolf for China would include which one of the following after she is married
Her children and grandchildren
The cultural rule that prohibits sexual intercourse among defined classes of relatives is called
Incest
Which of the following kinship systems is bifurcate merging?
Iroquois
A relationship between two people that is socially recognized and which confers birth-status rights on children is called
Marriage
According to McCurdy, which one of the following is the most important structural tension associated with marriage in Bhil Society?
Marrying outside the clan or arak a.k.a Exogamy
Marriage is a relationship based on:
Mating
Which of the following post-marital residence patterns refers to the bride and groom living independently from either family?
Neolocal Residence
In the Omaha kinship system, are you related to your biological mother?
No, you are related to the men
In her article of Chinese uterine family, Wolf asserts that within her husband's family
She is considered an outsider and regarded suspiciously
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 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 brides kin
Which one of the following is not a function of marriage?
The functions ARE: 1. transforms status of the man and woman 2. Stipulate the degree of sexual access 3. Establishes legitimacy of the children born to the wife 4. Creates relationships between the kin of the wife and the kin of the husband (unites two families)
Descent through only one side is referred to as:
Unilineal
In the Crow system of kinship, descent is traced only through the:
Women
Bride Service is when:
husband spends a period of time working for the family of the bride
According to Goldstein (Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife), Tibetan polyandry functions above all to
keep family lands intact
If a married couple live with her family, what type of post-marital residence is that?
matirlocal marriage
Consanguines are:
people who are related by birth
McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India) argues that arranged marriage functions to
provide political support
Descent from a common ancestor through males only, is called
Patrilineality Descent
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
When a man is simultaneously married to two or more women, anthropologists call the arrangement
Polygyny
The Hawaiian kinship system is based on what two criteria?
Sex and generation
