Exam 10: Kinship, Family, and Marriage

________is a gift exchange practice that helps stabilize a marriage by establishing a vested interest for both the groom's and bride's extended families in the success of the marriage.

A type of descent group that is based on a claim to a founding ancestor but lacks genealogical documentation is a:

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following statements about kinship is true?

Anthropologists have clearly demonstrated that kinship is not solely given at birth via biological connections or through marriage alliances, but can be acquired through other means. What are three other ways in which kinship can be acquired? What are the benefits of being able to acquire kinship outside of biological relations and marriage? Are these other forms of acquiring kinship present in the United States? Are they present in your own home community? Provide at least two examples of alternate forms of acquiring kinship in the United States and in your own home community.

Kinship includes:

Nation-states draw heavily on ideas of which of the following in order to create a sense of connection among very different people found within their national borders?

Anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard conducted ethnographic research with Nuer people of southern Sudan in the 1930s, and argued that this group of people constituted a patrilineal descent group. What does it mean to be a patrilineal descent group and how does this differ from a matrilineal descent group? How were cattle used to reflect the patrilineal nature of Nuer descent? Provide at least two examples.

Which of the following phenomenon is currently placing stress on kinship systems worldwide?

Enculturation that takes place within a family shapes individuals' lives:

Cousins who are children of a father's brother or a mother's sister are considered which type of cousin?

One way in which humans construct kinship groups is by tracking genealogical:

Which of the following statements about marriage is true?

Through kinship studies across cultures, anthropologists have determined that the ways in which genealogies are constructed can be messy and far from exact. Gaps, interruptions, disruptions, uncertainties, and assumed connections are all found among genealogies. This fact is further underscored by Kathleen Gough's reexamination of anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard's kinship work with Nuer people in Sudan. Describe one example of a genealogical disruption that Gough found among Nuer kinship data collected in the 1930s, and discuss why the disruption likely occurred. What sorts of gaps and disruptions are present in your own genealogy and why do you think they have occurred? Do you think that genealogies will undergo even greater gaps and disruptions in the future? Why or why not?

Early anthropologists considered which of the following groups as key to understanding each culture's economic, political, and religious dynamics?

Families and kinship networks have the power to provide support and to nurture, as well as to ensure reproduction of which of the following?

Which of the following terms is defined as the system of meaning and power that cultures create to determine who is related to whom and to define their mutual expectations, rights, and responsibilities?

The practice of marriage to an individual outside of a particular group of people is termed:

Discussions regarding same-sex marriage in the United States are a clear example of changing patterns of:

Individuals learn basic patterns of human behavior from their families in a process termed: