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Antho Final Flashcards

1
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The ___ means “marriage within the group” (or marriage to a partner who ‘matches’ you on some characteristic).

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Endogmany (Endogamous)

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When a groups promotes this, it typically reflects a desire to ____ some aspect of identity.

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conserve (preserve)

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3
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But it will always be balanced by ____ (the idea that some individuals are too socially close to be spouses).

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Incest Taboo

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The term ____ means “marriage outside the group”

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Exogamy (Exogamous)

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And it’s often chosen because the group desires ___ to something another group has.

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Gain Access (access)

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Although anthropologists long believed that ___ was a concept “invented” by Western Culture

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Romantic Love

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7
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Around the time of the ____.

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Industrial Revolution

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Research by ____ indicated that 90% of cultures have this concept, though where it ranks in terms of importance when choosing a spouse varies considerably.

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Fisher

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The term _____ refers to a transfer of wealth from the bride’s family to the bride herself or to the groom’s family;

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Dowry

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The term ____ refers to a transfer of wealth from the groom’s family to the bride’s family.

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Bride price (Bride wealth)

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True or False: According to Mattison, the Mosuo do not engage in sex.

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False

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True or False: All human groups completely forbid group members from engaging in mating (i.e., consequence-free sex)

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False

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True or False: In ‘Arranging a Marriage in India’ the women interviewed by the author believed that they would fall in love with their husbands after marriage.

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True

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14
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True or False: Cousins fall under the incest taboo in all human cultures.

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False

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Thinking about a relationship you are in, have been in, or know about. Describe how that relationship is endogamous and how it is exogamous.

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My marriage is EXOGAMOUS with respect to sex and gender (I’m a cis women and my husband is a cis man) and in religious upbringings ( I was catholic and he was raised Baptist). We are ENDOGAMOUS because we are both racially/ethnically white and we both have the same interest (video games, books, music).

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16
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Kinship can be ____, in which case it is created by birth, blood, descent, or shared nurturance;

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Consanguineous (Consanguinous)

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17
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It can also be ____, which mean it’s created by a marriage;

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Affinal (Affinal Kinship)

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18
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Finally, ____ kinship is that created by mutual choice.

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Fictive (Fictive Kinship)

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19
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Anthropologically, a family is a group of people who are ____.

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Coresident

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20
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And who are ____ on a day-to-day basis.

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Economically interdependent (Economically Dependent)

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21
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A neolocal postmarital residence patterns results in a(n) _____ family;

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Nuclear (Nuclear, blended, polygynous)

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Patri-or matrilocality results in a(n) _____ family.

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Extended (Extended/joint/multi-generation)

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True or False: Marriage does not exist in cultures that have consanguineous families.

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False

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True or False: The Nuer have a patrilineal kinship system.

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True

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25
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True or False: A mother-in-law is an example of affinal kinship

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True

26
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True or False: McCurdy notes that kinship is much more important in the lives of North Americans than it is among the Bhill.

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False

27
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Explain the difference between a conjugal and a consanguineous family (NB: Don’t confuse consanguineous FAMILY with consanguineous KIN)

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Conjugal families are based around spousal relationships. Two or more individuals marry or collaboratively raise children together. A consanguineous family is based around a sibling relationship. Both men and women have spouses, but men coreside with their sisters and they are their sisters collaboratively.

28
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The term_____ refers to a culture in which marriage may have more than two spouses; although this term is missed used,

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Polgamy

29
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In reality the phenomenon is gendered within cultures. _____ refers to a culture where a man may have more than one wife.

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Polygyny

30
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_____ refers to the less common phenomenon of a women being allowed to have more than one husband.

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Polyandry

31
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True or False: In the Hawaiian system, ego cannot marry the children of his or her own parents or the children of any of his or her parents’ siblings (i.e., this system has the most extensive incest taboos).

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True

32
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True or False: The Eskimo system emphasizes the nuclear family, and all relatives outside this unit are, to a certain extent, equally ‘unimportant’.

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True

33
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True or False: The Hawaiian system does not make a distinction between lineal and collateral relatives (e.g., father, father’s brother, and mother’s brother are all called by the same term)

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True

34
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True or False: The Sundanese system is the only system that calls mother’s sister by a different term than father’s sister.

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False

35
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True or False: The Hawaiian system is associated with a double-descent group, which divides up kin obligations by gender (i.e., ego owes different obligations to mother’s kin than to father’s kin, so rights and obligations do not overlap or come into conflict with one another).

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True

36
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True or False: The only way to tell the difference between the Omaha and Crow systems is to looks at the terms for cross-cousins. Otherwise, the systems are the same.

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True

37
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True or False: The Omaha system is patrilineal

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True

38
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True or False: In the Eskimo system, an individual called ‘aunt’ can only be a consanguineous relative.

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False

39
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True or False: The Iroquois system is a bilateral reckoning system

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False

40
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True or False: In the eskimo system, all children of parents’ siblings are called ‘cousin’.

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True

41
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True or False: The Iroquois system distinguishes between parallel and cross-cousins

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True

42
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True or False: The Nuer use the Omaha kinship system.

A

True

43
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True or False: The Eskimo kinship system is associated with a bilateral kindred, rather than with a true kinship/descent group.

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True

44
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True or False: Both omaha and Crow engage in generational skewing of the cross relatives they consider to be ‘less important’

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True

45
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True or False: The crow system has more specific, information-rich terms for maternal cross-cousins than for paternal cross-cousins

A

True

46
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True or False: The Crow system is associated with a unilineal kinship/descent group

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True

47
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True or False: In all kinship systems, all individuals called by the terms for ‘cousin’ fall under the incest taboo (i.e., ego cannot marry them).

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False

48
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True or False: The Omaha kinship system has more specific, information-rich terms for patrilineal cross-relatives than for matrilineal cross-relatives.

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True

49
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True or False: The Eskimo system makes a distinction between collateral relatives and lineal relatives (e.g., mother and mother’s sister are called by different terms).

A

True

50
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True of False: The Iroquois system prioritizes the patrilline

A

False

51
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All the unilineal kinship system make a distinction between ____ cousins (the children of the mother’s sisters and the children of father’s brother), who COULD be part of ego’s lineage.

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Parallel (parallel cousins)

52
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And ____ cousins (the children of mother;s brothers and the children of father’s sisters, who will always be from a lineage other than ego’s).

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Cross (Cross Cousins)

53
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Cousins who COULD belong to ego’s lineage are called by the same term as _____.

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Nuclear Family (brother and sister, siblings)

54
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Cousins who belong to a lineage different from who’s may be desirable ______.

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Spouse (marriage partner, husband/wife)

55
Q

_____ is the facet of enculturation that develops the individual’s sense of right and wrong

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Normative Orientation

56
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Resulting in ____ controls, which do NOT depend on reaction (or fear of reactions) from someone outside the self;

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Internal (cultural)

57
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_____ controls are controls on behavior that result from fear of another’s reaction.

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External (social)

58
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In “uncentralized/acephalous groups”, leaders are not _____ (i.e., the “office of leadership” does not exist on any permanent basis, and leader’s’ power can be easily revoked).

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Institutionalized

59
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And they do not have the power to ____ the group to follow their decision.

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Coerce

60
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We call these leaders ____ if they purely with internal matters

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Head men (head man)

61
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And _____ if they represent the groups in dealings with other groups.

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Big men (Big man)

62
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True or False: Most North Americans use the Eskimo kinship reckoning system and belong to a bilateral kindred, rather than a true unilineal descent groups

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False

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