Exam 13: Families, Kinship, and Marriage 

There is no simple or universally accepted explanation for the fact that nearly all cultures ban incest. However, the most accepted explanation for the incest restriction is

Which of the following is an example of a rule of endogamy?

In unilineal descent, one's ancestry is traced through only one line of descent.

In almost all cases of marriage in nonindustrial societies, some kind of preexisting social relationship between any two individuals helps determine whether they may marry.

After reaching an all-time low for the twentieth century in the 1970s, the nuclear family is now making a rebound, accounting for a greater number of U.S. households each year.

Why does exogamy, the practice of seeking a husband or wife outside one's own kin group, have adaptive value outside of biological concerns?

Comparing notions of family between the United States and Brazil, the extended family still plays a central role for most Brazilians.

A descent group consists only of a married couple and their children.

Traditionally, in some areas of Bosnia, several nuclear families were embedded in an extended family household called a zadruga. Among the Nayar in southern India, it was typical for people to live in matrilineal extended family compounds called tarawads. Descriptions of these two culturally specific cases highlight how

As of 2018, more Americans were living alone than were living within a nuclear family.

What does ego represent in a depiction of a kinship system?