Exam 20: Kinship and Descent

Reconfigure your own kinship along both a matrilineal and patrilineal line.How would your daily life be different? What new opportunities and challenges would emerge in your own family?

The Eskimo kinship system produces a designation of parallel and cross cousins.

In which kinds of societies is patrilineal descent likely to be found?

New reproductive technologies are:

Fictive kin play a significant role in many societies.Discuss the importance of this kinship group and the adaptive advantages for those societies that practice it.

The Han in China have a patrilineal descent system that is very much a "man's world."

What are both the kinship and wider social significances of "new reproductive techniques" (NRTs)?

Whatever descent system is used,the kin of both mother and father are important to the social structure of every society.

Kindred and bilateral descent can be used interchangeably since they mean the same thing.

What is the primary purpose of a moiety?

Define and contrast a clan and lineage.

When kinship membership is traced either through males or through females but not both,it is called:

What is the importance of a descent group?

Use the example of your own family or that of your friend to explain the meaning of North American kindreds.

Describe a typical Turkish immigrant's life in the Netherlands,paying particular attention to the concept of "honor killings" and the reasons for their existence culturally.What challenges does the nation-state face as diasporic communities develop worldwide?

Mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome studies of the Maori indicate that their creation myth telling of their origins from the ancient place of Hawaiki is consistent with an origin in:

The Dutch people allow honor killings in order to respect minority cultures.

The more individuals become enmeshed into larger social networks,as happens in political states,the more they rely on kinship.

Anglo-American culture uses Eskimo kinship terminology.

All of the following statements regarding a lineage are correct except: