Final Exam
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?
Avunculocal
Which culture from our readings practices arranged marriage?
Bhil Society, Southern India
The Chinese depicted by Margery Wolf in the article about uterine families would be best classified as
Bilineal Patrilocal
In most of the world, marriage is not based on romantic love, but on:
Creating relationship between the family of the spouses, family alliances.
A rule of relationship that links people together based on reputed common ancestry is called
Descent
According to Scheper-Hughes in her article, "Mothers Love: Death without Weeping", poor Brazilian mothers living in a shanty town near the town of Bom Jesus de Mata
Don't mourn the death of infants because they know the fatality rate is so high, they are survivors, distinguish between natural and supernatural deaths, recongnize a large category of infant deaths, won't save a baby she knows is going to die.
According to Scheper-Hughes, doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often
Don't try to help the dying children, many times will give sleeping pills or tranquilizers to silent the cries of a sick or dying baby, they do recognize the malnutrition though.
What type of post-marital residence is the rarest?
Duolocal Marriage
When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from her own village, we call the arrangement
Endogamy
Marriage can be a:
Exogamy and Endogamy
When it is preferred that a woman marry a man from another village, we call the arrangement
Exogmay
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
Which one of the following is not a function of marriage?
Functions that are: a) transforms the status of the man and women (going away). A lot of the time taking the name. b) Stipulates the degree of sexual access. c) Establishes the legitimacy of the children born to the wife. d) creates relationships between the kin of the wife and the kin of the husband.
According to Margery Wolf, which one of the following would be a member of her uterine family after she is married?
Her children and grandchildren.
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, or the taboo of one
Which of the following kinship systems is bifurcate merging?
Iroquois System
According to Goldstein (Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife), Tibetan polyandry functions above all to
Keep the wealth and land in the family, don't break it up between children.
According to Goldstein, it is difficult for a male Tibetan to start his own farm because
Lack of available farm land, harsh climate, and hard to manage farm and animals alone.
Scheper-Hughes (Mother's Love: Death without Weeping) claims that which of the follow kinds of people encourage(s) mothers not to become attached to their sick and dying children?
Local midwives and the traditional healers (praying women).
According to McCurdy, which one of the following is the most important structural tension associated with marriage in Bhil Society?
Making sure to marry from the RIGHT clan. Can't be married from mother's or father's mothers clan.
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
Matrilineal Descent
If a married couple live her with her family, what type of post-marital residence is that?
Matrilocal Marriage
According to Goldstein, Tibetan polyandry
May vanish within the next generation because of the changing oppurtunities
Which of the following groups from class has clans:
Meskwake and Bhil of India
As a child, a Chinese woman's most important family ties are with her
Mother
Which of the following post-marital residence patterns refers to the bride and groom living independently from either family?
Neolocal Marriage
In the Omaha kinship system, are you related to your biological mother?
Nope, Patrilineal
In her article on the 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
Which one of the following is not true about Tibetan polyandry?
Talks about the Barren land, and family fission (land division) killing the lady babies.
According to McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India), the term feminal kinrefers in part to ______________ when it is used to described kin relationships in Ratakote.
The bride's kin
The custom of polyandry may end among Tibetans living in Nepal because
There is a shift from agriculture, they also see new economic possibilities.
Descent through only one side is referred to as:
Unilineal
Descent from a common ancestor through males only, is called
Patrilineage
If a married couple live with his family, what type of post-marital residence is that?
Patrilocal Marriage
Consanguines are:
People related by birth
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
McCurdy (Family and Kinship in Village India) argues that arranged marriage functions to
Provide support for the family and wife.
A bilateral kinship group that is most like the lineage is called a
Ramages
In the Crow system of kinship, descent is traced only through the:
Relate only through the women
According to McCurdy, when Bhil's visit other villages, they usually stay with
Relatives
Marriage is a relationship based on:
Reproduction
The Hawaiian kinship system is based on what two criteria?
Sex and Generation