Deck 8: Kinship and Domestic Life

Question 1

A co-residential group that comprises more than one parent-child unit.

A)stem household
B)nuclear household
C)collateral household
D)extended household
E)lateral household

Answer 1

extended household

Question 2

Neolocal residence for married couples is most associated with

A)Western industrialized society.
B)bilateral kinship systems.
C)a mode of production that benefits from a flexible labor force.
D)all of the above.
E)none of the above.

Answer 2

all of the above.

Question 3

Labour given by the groom to the parents of the bride.

A)brideprice
B)brideservice
C)groomprice
D)dowry
E)groomservice

Answer 3

brideservice

Question 4

In a patrilineal kinship system,a married couple is most likely to reside

A)with or near the parents of the bride.
B)with or near the parents of the groom.
C)with or near the bride's mother's brother.
D)alternating between the bride's family and the groom's family.
E)with the bride's family for the first year and then with the groom's family.

Question 5

Children of either one's father's brother or one's mother's sister are

A)cross cousins
B)parallel cousins
C)lateral cousins
D)equal cousins
E)vertical cousins

Question 6

When property or money is transferred from the groom and/or members of his family to the parents of the bride,this is called

A)dowry.
B)child marriage.
C)brideprice or bridewealth.
D)marriage by capture.
E)"side marriage."

Question 7

Bilateral descent systems are:

A)always found in pastoralist societies.
B)the most common system known.
C)less common than unilineal descent systems.
D)associated most clearly linked with tropical horticulture.
E)found to exist only in people's myths,never reality.

Question 8

In unilineal descent systems:

A)some very close "blood" relatives are excluded from your kin group.
B)all close biological relatives are included in your kin group.
C)no close relatives are included in your kin group.
D)the family line will soon die out.
E)both males and females can inherit equally.

Question 9

The research tool that shows all the relatives known by an individual or "ego" is a

A)genealogy.
B)life history.
C)kinship diagram.
D)descent system.
E)extended family.

Question 10

Sri Lankan young people in Toronto are reported to see love marriages as

A)occurring between inexperienced or immature individuals.
B)crucial to economies that are tied to spatially fixed resources such as land.
C)the most common form of kinship system cross-culturally.
D)associated most clearly with male dominance in society.
E)less stable when compared to arranged marriages.

Question 11

Marriage of one husband with more than one wife.

A)polygyny
B)polygamy
C)polyandry
D)monogamy
E)misogyny

Question 12

Marriage between status equals.

A)egogamy
B)hypergyny
C)isogamy
D)equanymy

Question 13

Which kinship naming system best typifies Euro-Canadian kinship naming?

A)Iroquois
B)Crow
C)Omaha
D)Hawaiian
E)Inuit ("Eskimo")

Question 14

A household pattern in which a woman (or women)is the central,stable,domestic figure around which other members cluster.

A)gynofocality
B)matrilineality
C)matriarchy
D)polyandry
E)matrifocality

Question 15

Situations in which people who want to marry cannot do so for one reason or another.

A)marriage crises
B)marriage penury
C)betrothal angst
D)divorce crises
E)engagement crises

Question 16

Residence with or near the husband's mother's brother corresponds to which residence rules.

A)avunculocal
B)neolocal
C)matrilocal
D)unculocal
E)biolocal

Question 17

A record of a person's relatives constructed beginning with the earliest ancestors and working down to the present.

A)kinship diagram
B)genealogy
C)kinship chart
D)kinship system
E)kinshipology

Question 18

The totality of a person's ideas about and behavior toward people considered to be kin is referred to as that person's

A)religion.
B)emics and etics combined.
C)kinship diagram.
D)kinship system.
E)genealogy.

Question 19

Marriage between cousins,including "first cousins"

A)is taboo in all cultures due to genetic problems for children born in such marriages.
B)was common among the Mormons of the United States until it was outlawed.
C)is the standard practice in small island populations of Europe,such as Tory Island.
D)was probably the prominent form of marriage among early foragers.
E)is the preferred form of marriage among many Muslim populations.

Question 20

The incest taboo:

A)leads to exogamy.
B)forbids marriage or sexual intercourse with the same set of relatives in all cultures.
C)is the rule that universally prevents cousin marriage.
D)applies only to sexual intercourse,not marriage.
E)has no apparent useful function in society.

Question 21

The Minangkabau are an example of a patrilineal,patrilocal culture.

Question 22

Brideprice is more commonly found in intensive agricultural societies than in horticultural or pastoral societies.

Question 23

Cultural anthropologists generally accept that marriage involves a binding union between a man and woman such that children born to them are considered legitimate by society.

Question 24

Stem households have endured in Japan whereby one son will live with his parents bringing in his wife.

Question 25

In South India,cousin marriage is a preferred form of marriage.

Question 26

In bilateral descent,a child can choose as an adult to trace lineage through the male or female line.

Question 27

Bilateral kinship is more characteristic of foraging and industrial societies than of the other three modes of production.

Question 28

Adoption in Canada is described as

A)a legalized form of child transfer.
B)an unconstitutional form of child transfer.
C)ritually established procedure of child transfer.
D)a procedure which establishes the relationship of parent and child between persons not so related by nature.
E)A and D.

Question 29

In double descent an individual belongs both to a patrilineage and a matrilineage.

Question 30

Same sex marriages are not recognized in Canada.

Question 31

Marriage was traditionally recognized in all societies as the union of a man and a woman.

Question 32

Age hypogyny is increasing in North America as women are finding partners and husbands who are younger.

Question 33

In Mediterranean cultures,a widow often loses certain freedoms and privileges as she is seen as "oversexual" and she is discouraged from going to public coffeehouses and taverns.

Question 34

A rule that says a person must find a marriage partner from outside their village is called exogamy.

Question 35

Though Euro-Canadian is generally bilateral,it does have features that can be called patrimony in that a wife will often adopt a husband's surname and children are often given their father's surname.

Question 36

The idealized residence pattern in Canada is a neolocal residence whereby newly married couples will live in their own residence.

Question 37

Being nursed by the same woman will define two individuals as kin in some cultures.

Question 38

Hypergyny is a marriage in which the bride is of higher status than the groom.

Question 39

Given the rich cultural diversity of the United States and Canada,most would now consider the label American kinship and its characterization as overgeneralized.

Question 40

In Toronto,notions of romantic love are less strongly held by Euro-Canadian women than by Sri Lankan women.

Question 41

Provide two examples of rules of exogamy.

Question 42

________ is the term that applies to marriages between one man and several woman.

Question 43

Currently,about one of every thirty couples in Canada is infertile,and many of these couples would prefer not to have children.

Question 44

Describe two different forms of economic transfer involved in marriage arrangements.

Question 45

What kind of marital residence system characterizes industrial society and what is a possible reason for this pattern?

Question 46

In ancient ________,brother-sister marriage was considered especially appropriate for royal families.

Question 47

The presence of fraternal interest groups in a culture is most associated with the form of marriage called ________

Question 48

Other than being a biological parent,provide three other ways in which adults can establish kinship or sharing ties with infants and children.

Question 49

Cousin marriage is preferred and allowed among ________.

Question 50

What are the three possible status differentials between a groom and bride who marry? Define each of the terms.

Question 51

Comment on the existence of American kinship in Canada.

Question 52

What are four different forms of descent systems?

Question 53

The form of descent that is most closely associated with intensive agriculture is ________.

Question 54

What is marriage? Define marriage and how the anthropological definition of marriage has changed.

Question 55

The ________ is a rule prohibiting marriage or sexual intercourse between certain kinship relations,while is the practice of marriage outside a particular group or locality and ________ is marriage within a particular group or locality.

Question 56

What are the two types of cousins that a person may have and how are they different?

Question 57

An example of a matrilineal culture is ________.

Question 58

An example of a patrilineal culture is ________.

Question 59

Discuss how patrilineal descent works and describe its effects on family structure and dynamics,using either the Lim family as an example or Watson's research in a Chinese village of rural Hong Kong Territory.

Question 60

________ is a kinship rule that defines preferred marital residence in a new location not linked to either the bride's or the groom's parents' residence.________ defines preferred marital residence with or near the bride's kin,while ________ defines preferred marital residence with or near the groom's kin.

Question 61

Is divorce a cultural universal? Discuss.

Question 62

What social and cultural forces shape preference rules in North America? Using anthropological concepts,analyze the dominant patterns that you see around yourself.

Question 63

How is marriage changing in contemporary cultures?