Important Terms 6

Question 1

Avunculocal

Answer 1

Married individuals live with or near an uncle

Question 2

Bilateral descent

Answer 2

Descent is recognized through both the father and the mother side of the family

Question 3

Bridewealth

Answer 3

Payments made to the brides family by the grooms family

Question 4

Clan

Answer 4

A group of people who have a general notion of common descent that is not attached to a specific biological ancestor

Question 5

Descent groups

Answer 5

Relationships that provide members with a sense of identity and social support based on ties of shared ancestry

Question 6

Domestic group

Answer 6

A term that can be used to describe a group of people who live together even if members do not consider themselves to be a family

Question 7

Dowery

Answer 7

Payments made to the grooms family by the brides family

Question 8

Endogamy

Answer 8

A term describing expectations that individuals must marry within a particular group

Question 9

Exogamy

Answer 9

A term describing expectations that individuals must marry outside a particular group

Question 10

Family of procreation

Answer 10

The new household formed for the purpose of conceiving and raising children

Question 11

Joint family

Answer 11

A large extended family that includes multiple generations

Question 12

Kinship

Answer 12

A term used to describe culturally recognize to ties, statuses used, and expected behaviours of family members with certain statuses

Question 13

Kinship diagrams

Answer 13

Charts used by anthropologists two visually represent relationships between members of a kinship group

Question 14

Kinship system

Answer 14

A pattern of culturally recognize relationships between family members

Question 15

Kinship terminology

Answer 15

The terms used in a language to describe relatives

Question 16

Levirate

Answer 16

The practice of a woman marrying one of her deceased husband‘s brothers

Question 17

Lineage

Answer 17

A term used to describe any form of descent from a common ancestor

Question 18

Matriarchal

Answer 18

A society in which women have authority to make decisions

Question 19

Matrilineal descent

Answer 19

A kinship group created through the maternal line

Question 20

Matrilocal residence

Answer 20

Married individuals live with or near the wife’s mother‘s family

Question 21

Neolocal residence

Answer 21

Newly married individuals establish our households separate from their other family members

Question 22

Nuclear family

Answer 22

parents who are in a culturally recognize relationship such as marriage along with some minor or dependent child

Question 23

Patrilineal cousin marriage

Answer 23

The practice of marrying a male or female cousin on the fathers side

Question 24

Patrilineal descent

Answer 24

Kinship group created through the paternal side

Question 25

Patrilocal residence

Answer 25

Married individuals live with or near the husband’s father’s family

Question 26

Polygamous

Answer 26

Families based on plural marriages

Question 27

Polyandry

Answer 27

One wife and multiple husbands

Question 28

Polygyny

Answer 28

One husband and multiple wives

Question 29

Serial monogamy

Answer 29

Married to one spouse after another

Question 30

Sororate marriage

Answer 30

The practice of a man marrying the sister of his deceased wife

Question 31

Stem family

Answer 31

Oh version of an extended family that includes an older couple and one adult child with a spouse and children

Question 32

Unilineal

Answer 32

Descent is recognized through one line or side of the family