Deck 7: Marriage, Family, and Residence: What Are the Possibilities

Question 1

Scarves worn by bride and groom are tied together symbolizing their eternal bond in which traditional wedding ceremony?

A) Buddhist
B) Hindu
C) Christian
D) Muslim

Answer 1

Hindu

Question 2

A kinship relationship based on a blood connection is called

A) clan.
B) consanguineal.
C) affinal.
D) collateral.

Answer 2

consanguineal.

Question 3

A kinship relationship based on a marriage connection is called

A) patrilineal.
B) consanguineal.
C) affinal.
D) collateral.

Answer 3

affinal.

Question 4

In a kinship diagram, a single line between a male and a female symbol indicates

A) siblings
B) marriage
C) divorce
D) death

Question 5

A nuclear family consists of all of the following EXCEPT

A) mother
B) father
C) siblings
D) grandparents

Question 6

Family that include persons that are not kin are called

A) blended families
B) single-parent families
C) expanded families
D) extended families

Question 7

Of the following marriage patterns, which is most preferred in 79 percent of the world's cultures?

A) monogamy
B) polyandry
C) group
D) polygyny

Question 8

Bridewealth refers to

A) gifts from the groom's family to the bride's family.
B) wealth brought with the bride when she marries.
C) wealth already owned by the bride.
D) wealth accumulated prior to marriage.

Question 9

Which of the following marriage patterns allows the newly married couple to choose where they live?

A) bilocal residence
B) neolocal residence
C) avunculocal residence
D) matrilocal residence.

Question 10

Same-sex unions, including marriage, have been recognized in the histories of all of the following cultures EXCEPT

A) Greek and Roman.
B) European-American
C) Pre-Columbian Native American.
D) Sub-Saharan African.

Question 11

Among the Nayar of India "visiting husbands" had what responsibility to a woman and the child for which he claimed paternity? He

A) paid child support.
B) gave her gifts and child support.
C) was required to marry her.
D) had no economic obligations for the child.

Question 12

Across cultures, the most preferred type of specific marriage form based on the number of societies practicing the marriage form is

A) monogamy.
B) polygamy.
C) polygyny.
D) polyandry.

Question 13

Consanguineal relatives across cultures are

A) relatives by marriage.
B) relatives defined by a society as blood relatives.
C) relatives that are legally adopted.
D) non-relatives that are treated like relatives.

Question 14

The half-marriage of the Yurok (Lower Klamath River in northwestern California) served to

A) allow poor men of low rank to marry by paying reduced bridewealth.
B) allowed men to maintain families in two different villages.
C) required a man to live with his wife for only half of the year while he worked out of the area to earn . money for bridewealth payments.
D) gave a man prestige because he maintained two such marriages at the same time.

Question 15

You are an ethnographer who has discovered a high correlation between internal societal warfare and the residence patterns of the society.Other ethnographers have noted a similar correlation.What is the most likely residence pattern that the ethnographer recorded?

A) patrilocal
B) matrilocal
C) avunculocal
D) bilocal.

Question 16

The avunculocal residence pattern functions to place the couple with a

A) male member of the young man's lineage.
B) male member of the young man's kindred.
C) female member of the young man's lineage.
D) female member of the young man's clan.

Question 17

In which residence form does the newly married couple live with the bride's mother?

A) neolocal
B) patrilocal
C) matrilocal
D) avunculocal

Question 18

What marriage rule functions to assure that a man will have a replacement wife when his wife dies?

A) levirate
B) sororate
C) exogamy
D) endogamy

Question 19

In the sample societies discussed in the text, which form of postmarital residence is the most common (i.e., found in most cultures)?

A) neolocal
B) matrilocal
C) patrilocal
D) avunculocal

Question 20

What marriage rule functions to assure that a widow and her children are provided for?

A) levirate
B) sororate
C) exogamy
D) endogamy

Question 21

You are an ethnographer whose data on residence customs after marriage show that 65% of couples live with the groom's MoBr.Your ethnography would report that _____ residence is the most common.

A) patrilocal
B) matrilocal
C) avunculocal
D) bilocal

Question 22

A marriage rule requiring an individual to marry someone in his or her own social group is called

A) a lineage rule.
B) an exogamous rule.
C) a clan rule.
D) an endogamous rule.

Question 23

One function of matrilocal residence is that it

A) keeps consanguineally related men together.
B) keeps consanguineally related women together.
C) keeps men together for warfare.
D) it maintains close ties between the kin of the bride and groom.

Question 24

If someone is your affine (or affinal relative), you are related by

A) blood.
B) marriage.
C) clan.
D) lineage.

Question 25

Among foragers like the Mbuti pygmies, an important function of exogamy is that

A) consanguineal males stay together.
B) affinal males stay together.
C) the population of the band increases.
D) women stay with their birth families.

Question 26

The advantages of polygyny across cultures include all of the following EXCEPT

A) more wives means more sexual variety and access.
B) having more than one wife is a mark of prestige for both husband and wife.
C) more wives means more children, and more children brings status.
D) more wives means more workers, which means more wealth.

Question 27

Tibet has a polyandrous marriage system in part because

A) there is a shortage of women owing to the practice of infanticide.
B) polyandry limits population growth.
C) women own the wealth.
D) families want to avoid dividing land between brothers.

Question 28

An alternate term for matrilocal residence is

A) uxorilocal
B) virilocal
C) bilocal
D) matrifocal

Question 29

Which form of marriage found in Melanesia and elsewhere potentially gives a man the most political status?

A) polyandry
B) polygyny
C) monogamy
D) group marriage

Question 30

The traditional Hopi household consists of

A) a man, his wife and children, and his sons' wives and children.
B) a man, his wife and their daughters, and the daughters' husbands and children.
C) a woman, her daughters and their husbands and children, plus her unmarried sons.
D) a woman, her sons and their wives and children, plus her unmarried daughters.

Question 31

This type of marriage finance is characteristic of many arranged marriages between those of Indian descent in North America.

A) dowry
B) bridewealth
C) brideprice
D) groom payment

Question 32

Knauft's study of sister-exchange marriage among the Gebusi showed what percentage of first marriages were sister exchanges?

A) just under 25%
B) just over 50%
C) nearly 75%
D) nearly 100%

Question 33

What are the two types of families that most people belong to during their lifetime?

Question 34

Contrast a nuclear family and an extended family.

Question 35

What are the advantages of an arranged marriage according to Native Americans?

Question 36

What is sister exchange marriage?

Question 37

Discuss the functions of exogamy and one function of endogamy.

Question 38

Describe two functions of the levirate.

Question 39

Discuss three advantages of polygyny from the perspective of co-wives.

Question 40

Describe and explain the symbols used by anthropologists to diagram kinship relations.

Question 41

Discuss why it is difficult to define "family" across cultures.

Question 42

Discuss the advantages associated with exogamous marriage rules.

Question 43

Discuss the potential problems encountered by couples that marry for "romantic love."

Question 44

Discuss how marriage customs are social constructs and cite an example of how and why such constructs may change over time.