Exam 10: Kinship, Family, and Marriage

Ambilineal descent groups such as Samoans, Maori, and Hawaiians are sometimes referred to as:

Which of the following types of marriage specifically involves the union of one man to two or more women?

Both matrilineal and patrilineal patterns of descent build kinship groups through either one genealogical line (the mother's side) or the other (the father's side), which reflects which type of descent?

Which type of assisted reproductive technology involves the implantation of a woman's egg that has been fertilized in a laboratory?

Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, and cloning are four forms of which of the following types of technologies?

Changing patterns over time demonstrate that marriage, family, and kinship are cultural:

Humans form kinship groups via affinal relationships, which are most commonly achieved through:

Which of the following is the practice of formalizing and legalizing a marriage through the exchange of gifts from the bride's family to the husband's family?

The most effective strategy humans have developed to form stable, reliable, separate, and deeply connected groups that can last over time and through generations is termed:

Which of the following commonly creates socially recognized relationships that may involve physical and emotional intimacy, sexual pleasure, reproduction and raising of children, mutual support and companionship, and shared legal rights to property and inheritance?

By collecting kinship data from cultures worldwide, early anthropologists found that:

Which of the following are the two primary forms of gift exchange that formalize and legalize marriages, while establishing a relationship tie or alliance between kinship groups?

Clans that do not permit marriages within the group are considered:

The two types of descent groups distinguished by anthropologists are clans and:

Individuals in descent groups whose primary relationships are determined in the United States via "blood" relations are generally called which of the following types of relatives?

The practice of requiring an individual to marry someone within their own group is considered:

In 2007, 14 percent of all U.S. adoptions were arranged across national borders. The top "sending" country for transnational adoptions that year was China. What are some of the reasons that China was a top "sending" country for transnational adoptions? What is the typical marriage pattern in China and how does it contribute to the availability of Chinese children for transnational adoption? How do female infanticide and abandonment of baby girls reflect the preferred marriage pattern in China? In your opinion, why were so many Chinese children adopted by families in the United States rather than by families from other countries? Is transnational adoption the only option for abandoned Chinese children or are there other options that may also work to address this issue? What are some of the consequences of transnational adoptions for Chinese adoptees?

Which of the following forms of reproductive technologies involves a woman whose uterus has been implanted with a fertilized egg in which the egg has come from another woman?

A patrilineal descent group traces kinships through which side of the family?

Which of the following types of marriage is established based on love rather than strict social obligations?