Anthro Final- Marriage and the Family

Which theory hypothesizes that the taboo for incest is based on sibling association?

Westermarck's childhood familiarity theory.

A nuclear family might include all of the following except

a married uncle.

Marriage according to anthropologists is not necessarily a marriage certificate or wedding ceremony. It is much more like

a socially approved sexual and economic union.

It appears that all human societies have the custom of marriage. Why is this?

all of the above.

Of the following, which is the more common distribution of economic marriage transactions among societies that have them?

bride price.

Most societies

disapprove of marriages between first cousins.

Trobriand couples who are going to marry advertise this by doing all of the following except

fighting in public displays of aggression.

The custom of allowing a man to marry more that one woman is

found in most of the societies anthropologists have studied.

Of the following forms of marriage, the rarest is

group marriage.

Which of the following is not a stated explanation for marriage?

guaranteed sexual satisfaction.

The theory that inbreeding can be genetically harmful to animals that produce few offspring

is probably true.

Bride ___ is a gift of money or goods from the groom or his kin to the bride's kin

price.

In which group were incestuous marriages permitted?

royal Egyptian families.

Marriage includes two major factors. They are

sexual and economic considerations.

Cousin marriage is most common in

societies that have recently suffered severe depopulation.

The fact that people who are brought up together on the same kibbutzim are uninterested in each other as marriage partners, even when the marriages are favored by their parents supports which theory of the incest taboo?

the "childhood familiarity theory".

In which society does a young male move in with his betrothed's family for a trial period?

the Taramiut Inuit.

Marriage is considered a __ trait by anthropologists because it is practiced by all societies

universal.

A long postpartum sex taboo is most likely

where people depend on crops that are low in protein.

Polygyny is least likely in societies

with balanced sex ratios.

Which is the second most common form of economic transaction at a marriage?

Bride service.

A berdache is a male transvestite in which society?

Cheyenne.

A(n) ___ is a custom whereby a man is obligated to marry his brother's widow.

Levirate.

Among the ___, pastoral and agricultural society of Kenya, about three percent of the marriages are female-female.

Nandi.

Which of the following societies is more likely to practice bride service?

Native North and South American societies.