Chapter 12

Question 1

human life is ________ life

Answer 1

group

Question 2

what is relatedness?

Answer 2

the socially recognized ties that connect ppl in a variety of different ways. - friends, marriage, parenthood, common ansestor,

Question 3

what are kinship systems?

Answer 3

social relationships that are prototypically derived from the universal human experience of mating, birth, and nurturance.

Question 4

kinship systems are based on _________ and its transmission

Answer 4

a shared substance.
- transimittend by blood genes milk soul nurturance love

Question 5

kinship is based on 3 things…

Answer 5

marriage
descent
adoption
also sexuality and friendship

Question 6

what is marriage

Answer 6

kinship based on mating
affinal relationships

Question 7

what is decent

Answer 7

kinship based on birth
- consanguine relationships

Question 8

what is adoption

Answer 8

kinship based on nurturance
- fictive relations

Question 9

what are affinal relationships?

Answer 9

marriage

Question 10

what are consanguineal relationships?

Answer 10

descent

Question 11

what are finial relationships?

Answer 11

adoption

Question 12

what is bilateral descent?

Answer 12

formed by ppl who believe they are equally related through mothers and fathers side of the family

Question 13

bilateral decent creates a group called… which means…

Answer 13

bilateral kindred
- includes all ppls linked to individual both mothers and fathers side. - relatives of one person or a group of siblings.

Question 14

unilineal descent

Answer 14

• one gender
• most common
• through mother or father
• results in lineages

Question 15

unilineal decent results in…

Answer 15

lineages

Question 16

patrilineal

Answer 16

thraces throut the father

Question 17

matrilineal

Answer 17

traced through the mother

Question 18

example : all those who trace descent through males to a common male ancestor are indicated. this illustrates…

Answer 18

patrilineal decent - a type of unilateral

Question 19

lineages in families can control things such as…

Answer 19

land
political status

Question 20

lineages go back about…

Answer 20

5 generations

Question 21

a clan is…

Answer 21

a descent group made up of lineages whose members believe they are related even if they can no longer specify the links

Question 22

women leave _______ when they marry

Answer 22

patrilineages

Question 23

among the nuer people Bride wealth is….

Answer 23

provided by lineage members - goods paid to the brides family to compensate for their loss of services

Question 24

segmentary opposition

Answer 24

A mode of hierarchical social organization in which groups beyond the most basic emerge only in opposition to other groups on the same hierarchical level.

Question 25

describe matrilineages

Answer 25

- descent traced through the women - sister-brother important - maternal uncle is most important man for a boy -

Question 26

define generation

Answer 26

Kin terms distinguish relatives according to the generation to which the relatives belong

Question 27

what are the different criteria to distinguish how people are related to each other?

Answer 27

generation gender affinity collaterality bifurcation relative age gender of the linking relative

Question 28

affinity is...

Answer 28

marriage

Question 29

what is collaterality

Answer 29

those who are off to one side

Question 30

bifurcation

Answer 30

mothers side and fathers side

Question 31

parallel cousins vs cross cousins

Answer 31

parallel - persons parents same gendered siblings - fathers brother cross- parents different gendered siblings - brother-sister

Question 32

in adoption the relation of ________ is changed into one of ________

Answer 32

nurturance kinship

Question 33

in nunavut adapotees ....

Answer 33

maintiain a relationship with both old and new parents - creates a community

Question 34

marriage is not synonymous with _______

Answer 34

mating

Question 35

monogamy polygamy polyandry

Answer 35

one spouse more than one spouse a woman to more than one man

Question 36

endo vs exogamy

Answer 36

- endo - marriage within a defined social group exo - marriage outside a defined social group

Question 37

what are the 4 major patterns of post martial residence?

Answer 37

neolocal patrilocal matrilocal avunculocal

Question 38

what is neolocal?

Answer 38

couple sets up independent residence

Question 39

what is partilocal?

Answer 39

couple loves with the husbands father - common in farming

Question 40

what is matrilocal?

Answer 40

couple lives with wifes mother - thailand

Question 41

what is avunculocal

Answer 41

couple lives with husbands mothers brother - not common

Question 42

all societies prohibit __________

Answer 42

incest

Question 43

bridewealth

Answer 43

transfer of gifts goods or money from the grooms family to the brides - a way to compensate for the loss of her

Question 44

dowry

Answer 44

transfer of gifts goods money from brides family to grooms - what the women brings to her husband and his family

Question 45

what is another name for bridewealth

Answer 45

bride price

Question 46

what is bride service?

Answer 46

the groom is required to provide work for the brides family

Question 47

what is the def of family?

Answer 47

The definition of family is a group of individuals who can be considered as a single unit based on shared rights and responsibilities.

Question 48

what is a conjugal

Answer 48

based on marriage, includes a spousal pair and their children

Question 49

what is a non-conjugal family

Answer 49

a woman and her children, where the husband/father may be present occasionally or totally absent

Question 50

nuclear family

Answer 50

parents and their unmarried children

Question 51

extended family

Answer 51

parents married children grandchildren

Question 52

joint family

Answer 52

brothers and their wives or sisters and their wives -living together with children

Question 53

blended family

Answer 53

when divorced or widowed families remarry and bring children with them