Anthropology Final

family

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

affines

A person one is related to by marriage is called a(n) __________________ relative.

Marriage

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

descent

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

keep family lands and wealth intact

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

requires a group of brothers to marry one woman

According to Goldstein, Tibetan polyandry:

Lack of available farm land, harsh climate, and hard to manage farm and animals alone.

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

Bride's kin

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

feminial kin

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

Exogamy or marrying outside the clan

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

Don't mourn the death of infants because they know the fatality rate is so high

According to Scheper-Hughes in her articles, "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," poor Brazilian mothers living in a shantytown near the town of Bom Jesus de Mata _________________________.

Have no means to help dying children.

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

extended family

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

patrilineal system

Descent from a common ancestor through the males only, is called:

unilineal

Descent through only one side is referred to as:

1) Transforms the status of the man and woman, 2) Stipulates the degree of sexual access, 3) Establishes the legitimacy of the children born to the wife, 4) Creates relationship between the kin of the wife and the kin of the husband (unites two families).

Functions of Marriage:

patrilocal residence

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

matrilocal residence

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

sororate

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

Modernization of Catholic beliefs about infant death, the under-the-counter availability of Cytotec (a risky "morning after" pill), the implementation under the national health care system of the local "health agents" who went from door to door in poor communities and identifying/rescuing vulnerable infants, toddlers, and old people. *simple installation of water pipes reaching virtually all the times in the shantytown with sufficient, clean water.

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

function.

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

received the rite to excision

In order to be considered eligible for marriage, a Fouta Djallon girl must have:

women (matrilineal)

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

Aunt

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

No

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

earn money they could never get at home.

In the article "Marriage and Adulthood in West Africa" migration offers young men the opportunity to earn:

private matter between a man and a woman OR a public matter that covers a broad range of relatives who must consent to, or often arrange, the marriage.

Marriage can be a:

mating

Marriage is a relationship based on:

Provided economical and political support

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

must leave their Fouta Gjallon village and seek their fortunes wither in Guinea's capital, Conakry, or abroad to Europe, North America, or elsewhere in Africa.

Men in the Fouta Gallon are expected to make enough money to marry: support their parents, future children, and other relatives; and build a house. In order to do this, most men:

Sex & generation

The Hawaiian kinship system is based on what two criteria?

new opportunities for economic and social mobility such as tourist trade and government employment.

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

polyandry

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

The groom pays a sum of bride wealth money to the bride's parents and give the bride one or more suitcases full of cloth.

The typical wedding celebration in the Fouta Djallon lasts for two or three days and includes great quantities of rice, gifts of money or cloth, and:

Bhil Society

What culture from our readings practices arranged marriages?

Polyandry

What one of the following marriage types is the rarest?

Avuculocal residence

What type of post-marital is the rarest?

Bride service

When a husband spends a period of time working for the family of the bride:

polygyny

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

exogamy

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

endogamy

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

Bhil of India

Which of the following groups from class has a clan:

Iroquois

Which of the following kinship systems is bifurcate merging?

Neolocal residence

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

Avuculocal residence

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

Marriage

Without ____________________ it is nearly impossible for a man or a woman in the Fouta Djallon to be considered an adult, let alone a successful and responsible one, y others in the community.

Consanguines

people related by birth

incest taboo

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