quiz 4 .

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," three of the following statements are true about how the death of poor babies were treated in Alto do Cruzeiro and Bom Jesus de Mata, Brazil. Which one is not?

Midwives encouraged mothers of dead babies to grieve.

Which one of the following is not true about Tibetan polyandry?

Polyandry eliminates sexual competition among brothers.

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," mothers living in Alto do Cruzeiro in northeastern Brazil have been known to actually hasten the death of babies they felt would not survive by failing to feed them properly.

True

The Catholic Church's theology of liberation changed the way the Church handled infant deaths. Under this theology,

a municipal gravedigger oversaw the burial without offering any prayers or sign of the cross.

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

affinal

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

an extended family

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

descent

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," doctors in the Brazilian town of Bom Jesus de Mata often

failed to recognize malnutrition as the primary cause of illness among poor babies.

Goldstein believes that Tibetan polyandry is a response to high rates of female infanticide.

false

If the people of a village prefer that their children marry spouses from other villages, they follow the rule of village endogamy.

false

According to Goldstein in "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," 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.

On the basis of her work in northeastern Brazil and on literature describing practices in other parts of the world, Scheper-Hughes feels that

it was natural for poor mothers to maintain emotional distance from infants who are likely to die.

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

of government opposition and new economic opportunities.

Descent from a common ancestor through males only is called

patrilineal descent

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

permit richer farmers to maintain their standard of living.

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

polygyny

According to Goldstein in "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," Tibetan polyandry

requires a grup of brothers to marry one woman

A kinship group based on a unilineal rule of descent that is localized and has corporate power is called a clan.

true

According to Goldstein's "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," it is richer Tibetans living in Nepal who prefer polyandry.

true

Descent is a rule of relationship that links people together on the basis of reputed common ancestry. It often serves to regulate inheritance and the formation of kin groups.

true

In "Polyandry: When Brothers Take a Wife," Goldstein argues that Tibetan polyandry functions to reduce the birth rate.

true

In her article, "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," Nancy Scheper-Hughes argues that mothers in the shantytown of Alto do Cruzeiro learned to accept the death of a child without grieving.

true

in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," Scheper-Hughes claims that the installation of piped, treated water to all homes in the shantytown contributed most to the increased survival of infants in Bom Jesus de Mata.

true

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," the doctors and clergy of the Brazilian city of Bom Jesus de Mata worked hard to save the lives of poor children born in the shantytown of Alto do Cruzeiro but failed because of the indifference of the infants' mothers.

False

In "Mother's Love: Death Without Weeping," Scheper-Hughes feels that it was instinctual for poor mothers to grieve deeply over the death of their babies in most societies unless they have been separated from their infants by illness or divorce.

False