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
