Exam 14: Marriage, Family, and Kinship

In which society did people not marry,but rather lived their whole lives in a residential group made up of maternal kin?

Write a definition of marriage that would embrace all known forms of marriage recognized by anthropologists.In other words,what factors do these diverse unions have in common?

Societies with __________ descent have two rules of descent,each traced through links of one sex only,operating at the same time.

Which of the following statements is true of the relationship between family and household?

In societies that practice matrilineal descent,a man belongs to the same descent group as his __________.

Marital residence largely predicts the __________.

Patrilineal societies,but not matrilineal societies,tend to be __________.

Which condition predicts a discouragement of romantic love as a basis for marriage?

What feature of unilineal descent groups enables them to act as separate and distinct units?

In what modern nation might you still find the practice of dowry?

Some polygynous societies try to reduce competition by practicing sororal polygyny,which is when the co-wives are __________.

Societies that practice bride exchange tend to __________.

Which of the following is the most common economic marriage transaction cross-culturally?

Which of the following societies is most likely to practice bride service?

Of the following forms of marriage,the rarest is __________.

In a bilateral system,your __________ shares your exact kin group.

A phratry is a __________ descent group composed of supposedly related __________.

What factor predicts male-female bonding among birds and mammals?

What two major factors do all forms of marriage consider?

Relate the concept of the extended family to the different forms of marriage discussed in the chapter (monogamy,polygyny,and polyandry).What might an extended family look like in each of these marital systems?