Exam 13: Kinship and Other Methods of Grouping

All stratified societies have some social mobility.

Caste-structured societies are examples of:

What is the basic difference between the terms "age-set" and "age-grade"?

There are many differences between egalitarian and stratified societies. Discuss the major differences between each of these types of societies and how each is adaptive within the populations in which they are found.

People form groups based on gender, age, and social rank.

In matrilineal descent, women hold exclusive authority.

The Jewish bar mitzvah is an example of an:

A child's inheritance of their father's name as their own surname is customarily a part of _______________ descent.

The Boy Scouts of Americas would be classified by anthropologists as a "common-interest association."

Which kinship terminology reflects the absence of strong unilineal descent?

Social stratification amounts to institutional inequality.

In industrial societies, where individuals are often separated from their kin, we tend to find a proliferation of:

What relative do people of kindred have in common?

A unilineal descent group composed of at least two clans that share a supposedly common ancestry is called a:

When an original lineage splits into two, it is called fusion.

The Maori are believed to have descended from ancestral _______________.

When descent derives from both mother's and father's lines equally, it is called:

Maori geneticist Adele Whyte used what kind of research material to ascertain the number of women in the original founding of Aotearoa ("Land of the Long White Cloud")?

What is totemism?

"Age grades" are also referred to by the term "age classes."