Exam 10: Kinship and Descent

Today it is more difficult to obtain information on your distant relatives than it was in past decades.

Contrast consanguineal and affinal kinships ties.

A kinship diagram of a son,father,grandfather,and great grandfather would include:

Kinship is considered the single most important bond in virtually all human societies.Discuss how an individual would be impacted if he or she lost all kinship connections and yet was still required to function within our own society.Where would this person be most challenged and how would his or her life be different than a person who did have intact kinship ties?

Which of the following statements about kinship systems is not true?

What four types of kinship groups are based on the unilineal principle?

All of the following are criteria used to distinguish between different kin categories except:

List the six basic systems of kinship classification.

Clans,as unilineal descent groups:

What are the main principles of kinship classification and how do these structure a society?

Unilineal descent groups last over time and have a corporate nature,which means all of the following except:

In U.S.society,the typical marital residence pattern is:

Phratries are composed of at least two moieties.

The rules that a culture uses to establish affiliations with one's parents is called:

Neolocal residence is associated exclusively with food-collecting societies.

Kindreds are found in both unlineal and cognatic descent systems.

In the U.S.we most commonly practice bilateral descent.

Patrilineal descent was very marked and practiced by the majority of peoples in traditional China.

Which statement about the Zuni (New Mexico)kinship system is true?

New reproductive technologies are growing,but they still constitute an extreme minority.While surrogacy is becoming more popular,techniques such as in vitro fertilization are declining.